# Ansible vmware\_tag module issue with SSL

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-vmware-tag-module-issue-with-ssl/37539>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [January 10, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-vmware-tag-module-issue-with-ssl/37539 "2023-01-10T15:18:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-vmware-tag-module-issue-with-ssl/37539/1 "2023-01-10T15:18:39Z")

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Hi everyone,

As anyone using the community.vmware.vmware\_tag module?  
All other Ansible module for center/vmware are running well but with this module, I received this following message: “msg”: “Failed to connect to vCenter or ESXi API at xxx:443 due to SSL verification failure : HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘xxx’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE\_VERIFY\_FAILED] certificate verify failed (\_ssl.c:897)’),))”,  
despite I configured **validate\_certs** to False.

As someone any ideas or anything else to help me to resolve this case?

Thanks in advance and best regards, H