How to recover the lost vCenter Server Appliance(VCSA 6.5 & above) root password? The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine. vSphere 6.7 U1 is the last release to include vCenter Server for Windows, which has been deprecated. vCenter Server Appliance is a very simple vCenter platform compares to the windows-based vC. Since vCenter server […]
VCSA 6.5
Create SSO Users using ssh – dir-cli – VCSA 6.5
Create SSO users using SSH session on VCSA 6.5 with help of dir-cli utility. I had faced the strange issue after VCSA 6.5 deployment on My LAB that SSO account was not created. Could be my mistake and haven’t followed the best practice for the VCSA 6.5 deployment. But I have figured out the way […]
VMware VCSA 6.5 – Reset / Recover SSO Password
This article will provide a step by step procedure to reset / recover VMware vCenter SSO password. VMware vCenter server is core component of VMware vSphere. “Single Sign-On” is the main component of Platform Service Controller and responsible to provide a token to the users to access the solutions which are connected to the vCenter server. […]
VMware – VCSA 6.5 – How to Break/Reset root password ?
This article will provide step by step procedure to recover root password of VCSA 6.5 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance). On VCSA 6.5, VMware has built the appliance using their own Linux variant called Photon. This will simply VMware to simplify support and maintenance, OS/Appliance lifecycle, and streamline updates and patches. Prior to VCSA 6.5, VMware was […]



