Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi,
I have few ESXI's 4 connected to a vcenter, all is working ok.
My problem is that someone here have changed the root password to one of the ESXI's machines and forgot what is it.
That machine is still connected to the vcenter and I can access the host through vcenter as well as the vm's on it.
Is there any way through vcenter to reset the root password of that specific machine?
like weinstien said rebuild your host.
just vmotion off all the vms and rebuild it.
its not too bad, 45 mins ?
http://sparrowangelstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/08/esxi-how-to-backup-restore-host.html
that is how you can back up the host's config using powercli.
connect to vcenter and run that against the host.
after you reinstall then connect powercli directly to the host.