{"id":587,"date":"2020-09-23T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hentati.org\/?p=587"},"modified":"2020-12-06T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:08:30","slug":"reset-esxi-root-password-with-host-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/reset-esxi-root-password-with-host-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset ESXi Root Password with Host Profile \u2013 vSphere 6.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Misplaced or forgotten password for ESXI, we can have this kind of problem when we are working on Virtualisation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For VMware, if the ESXI is connected to vCenter, we can reset password without reboot or modify any configuration,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All we have to do, Extract Host Profile from an existing ESXI, modify it like below :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-588\" src=\"http:\/\/hentati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capture-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hentati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capture-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/hentati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capture-1024x666.png 1024w, https:\/\/hentati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capture-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/hentati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capture.png 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And Finaly, apply it on the ESXI wchich we want to change password for the root,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HOW TO :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the new host profile and from the &#8216;Actions&#8217; drop down menu choose &gt; Attach Detach Hosts and Clusters &gt; then Select the host in the wizard.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">From the Action Menu select Check Host Compliance.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">From the Action Menu select Remediate<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then Check Host Compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Enjoy new password quickly and safely !<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misplaced or forgotten password for ESXI, we can have this kind of problem when we are working on Virtualisation, For VMware, if the ESXI is connected to vCenter, we can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hentati.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}