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Reset VCF 9 Installer Admin Password

Shahrouz

During the deployment of the VMware Cloud Foundation 9 installer, you configure the password for both the root user and the local user. Usually, the wizard asks for specific users like root, admin, or audit, but in this case, it only asks for the “local user” password. When you look more closely at the description of the local user password, you will realize that the password will be set for the admin@local and vcf users. After installing the VCF Installer, the admin@local account will be used to log in to the web interface, and the vcf account will be used for SSH access to the VCF Installer.

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In this blog post, I explain how to reset the password of the admin@local user account on the VCF 9.0 Installer.

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GRUB Root Password – NSX Installation

Shahrouz

Since the release of NSX-T 3.2, I have had questions about an option in the installation wizard of the NSX Manager OVA appliance regarding the GRUB root password, and in this post, I want to address it. If you wanted to recover a lost or forgotten password for the root account of the NSX Manager appliance, you had to reboot the appliance and force the boot process to enter the GRUB menu.

But to be able to do that, when everything was under control and you had the root’s password, you needed to log in to NSX managers with root and configure the GRUB Hidden Timeout. There was also a default password configured which we could use or change together with the hidden timeout configuration.

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