So, its been quite some time since my last post, dealing with personal issues and the festive season and and and, so, here I am, back in 2017 and hopefully bringing awesome content.
So, lets kick it off with resetting the vSphere password. This works on the vCenter, an external Platform Service controller or an AIO system.
The reason behind me doing this is due to the password expiring and someone resetting it and not recording it in our password management software.
Requirements:
A Live boot ISO – I used this one: ADRIANE-KNOPPIX_V7.2.0gCD-2013-07-28-EN
Console access to the VM you want to reset.
Caveats:
Be sure to have ESXi host access to the host where these VMs reside as the VMs WILL require a reboot, meaning your entire vCenter will be offline for the during of this password reset.
Let’s begin:
I assume you have some basic ESXi / vSphere knowledge so I will not go in to how to do simple things like mount the ISO – I will continue from the boot process.
Boot from the ISO, till you reach
