[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] during "Fixing up serial ports" about cot HOT 1 OPEN

I did a little digging, and the problem seems to be that with whatever 'current' version of Requests/ SmartConnect / openssl / etc. (again, I'm not a python developer), the Exception raised is no longer "vim.fault.HostConnectFault".

I changed "deploy_esxi.py" as follows:

OLD, starting on line 82:
try:
return super(SmarterConnection, self).enter()
except vim.fault.HostConnectFault as exc:
NEW:
try:
return super(SmarterConnection, self).enter()
except Exception as exc:

I'm sure this isn't the best way to handle, but it got around the error I was having and allowed me to deploy my appliance.

from cot.