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How to fix or change the VCSA root password that has expired 6.5 or above

As I was going through the process of updating my VCSA from 6.5 to 6.7, I ran into the issue of my VSCA root password being expired.  After a couple of minutes of research, this was the final solution.

Solution:

Log into the VCSA website http://yourVCSA:5480

When prompted, type in root and the root password (it should work, even if expired)

Note: Even though there is an option here to change…

How to change the vCenter Server’s FQDN

In this blog post, I will discuss about one of the much awaited feature request of vSphere admins. Ever since vcenter was introduced, every vSphere admins wanted to know if we can change the vCenter server PNID (Primary Network ID). However, it was not supported in the earlier versions of vcsa. With the release of VCSA 6.7 U3, VMware has given life to this much awaited feature in vcsa which is…

vmware VCSA SSH links

We just upgraded to VCSA 6.5u1 yesterday from Vcenter 5.5. The process went flawlessly.

I did need to ssh and winscp into the VCSA to reset the update manager DB. Here are the information I used to enable SSH and then change the shell so winscp works.

  Run the below commands to enable SSH.  ssh.get shows the current status.  ssh.set allows you to change the state of SSH.  Use ‘false’ instead of…

[Ref] Configure vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with vCenter 6.0 U1

Spent longer than necessary messing with vRealize Orchestrator and trying to get it to display the plugin in vCenter server appliance 6.0 U1, you can review my trials and tribulations here:

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/523397

I have been trying to deploy vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with my VCSA 6.0 U1 instance (supported according to compatibility matrix), the symptoms are almost…