How to reset Vmware vSphere ESXi Password For any version- Two simple and Quick Solution

Forgetting passwords is something that unfortunately happens to everyone. Here is two solutions for Exsi password reset,

Commands used in the second solution :
sudo su
mkdir /boot /temp
mount /dev/sda5 /boot
cd /boot
cd /temp
rm *.tgz
cd etc
vi shadow
"delete key"
cd ..
umount /boot
reboot

[WeakThor]

The second choice worked like magic. Thank you!

[philouston]

This worked for me. Nice vid, straight to the point. The commands in the description are a nice touch.

[RashidulIslam-gwlc]

Great man. already password recovery done after see your great video. thanks and take love

[RijmjoDiary]

worked 2nd option on my
VMware vSphere 6 Hypervisor :)

[jlhumor]

Perfect. Short, Quick, and sweet. Thank you, sir.

[HowardStory]

Thank you. First option was the easiest and didn't take long to complete.

[benkofiowiredu]

This was a true life saver. Thank you so much for the clear and simple steps to get me back online and running!!!! THANK YOU and TANK YOU agian

[DanBrennan]

This was a true life saver. Thank you so much for the clear and simple steps to get me back up and running!!!!

[DiegoRodrigues]

The best solution! It works fine with esxi 5.5 and 6.5. Thanks!

[bubblebao]

Perfect. Thank you for recovery my ESXi on 11 September 2021

[sumeetpandhare]

Superb....
1st 1 is easy way to reset the password

[victormx]

Thanks for all your support !!! Its great solution !!! Regards.

[geteavnroc]

Tried it on a Dell PowerEdge R740xd. I first tried the upgrade, was prompted to reset the PW. When i rebooted and tried to to login, the password failed. Thinking i might have fat fingered something, or maybe i had the case wrong, i re-did the upgrade, making sure to reset the password again. I finished out the upgrade, and tested my login - still not working. So i tried the GParted Live thing, and i can get it to options screen, which asks what you want to boot too. If i chose either one of the top options, the menu goes away, and it just stares at me, doing nothing. I've also tried other distros as well, including Knoppix, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fennix - none of these worked. I've yet to find a resolution.

[moh.shadab]

Niyas what do u mean by nearest release esxi? lets suppose i have Esxi 6.5. is it mandatory to install and preserve data with the same version or i can also use Esxi 7.0 image to do that?

[travispitel]

This was a quick and easy fix! Thank you so much!

[irfandharma]

thanks for the video. I was looking for this for a long time.

[d-tech]

Thank you so much! You made the same error as I did, instead of umount you typed unmount like I did 😆

[BRNavalgund]

great, it is very clear and crispy without taking much time

[rodrigogonzalez]

Tengo un gran problema, se me apago la mquina en el proceso y ahora cuando pongo el comando "cp state.tgz /temp" me dice que no existe

[generalsifr]

I follow and it work. I got two HP proliant one gen 9 work but gen 8 did not read the usb. So I tried to swap the hard drive out to the gen 9 so i can do the password recover but after reaching (Tar -xf local.tgz) it stop and telling me it was not permitted. Any idea? Gen 8 is not really reading the usb. I formatted to ntsf to fat to fat32 and exfat and non work. That is why i remove all the drive and put in one that work but it did stop working at the procedure above. Thanks