Fortunately, that’s not a big deal to restore the password.įirst, let’s look at how to change the password via the flash vCenter Webclient. Admins manage the host through vCenter, but one day, they lose the password. Let’s start with some bright scenario: you forgot the ESXi root password but there’s vCenter installed.
But, I’ll teach you today how to restore the password in both cases. Some theoretical findingsĪfter thinking through some cases of how you guys lose passwords, I realized that these two scenarios are pretty common: you forgot the password, but you still can access the hosts via vCenter, and you lost the standalone host password from the standalone ESXi host and there’s no way to access it. So, don’t blame me in case you mess things up. Some methods to reset the passwords may be pretty risky. No fun! What if I don’t want to (or cannot) do that? In this article, I’m looking for a better way to reset the password.įor this article, I use ESXi 6.7.0, 8169922, but everything I write here works good for ESXi 6.x or 5.x versions. You see, when things like that happen, the first thing you do you look through some official documentation, right? Unfortunately, the only thing VMware advices to reset passwords is re-installing the OS.
Want to know why I wrote this article? I want to help other VMware admins. Well, resetting an ESXi host password is the thing I gonna talk about in this article. Well, ESXi root passwords are not an exception either! Without the root password, you lose control over your hosts, so it’s good to know how to reset it. Passwords are the things people tend to forget.
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