Former IT company wont give us vCenter password

we have 3 vmware boxes. Apparently the former IT company that was managing this network was using a pc in the server room as the vCenter server. eveything is vsphere 3.5. they wont give us the password for the vcenter account b/c they said its a password they use on all clients and they dont want us to have it. can i install our updated vCenter 4.1 on my workstation and manage the cluster or would all the settings be lost?
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Turgon Banned Posts: 6,308 ■■■■■■■■■□
we have 3 vmware boxes. Apparently the former IT company that was managing this network was using a pc in the server room as the vCenter server. eveything is vsphere 3.5. they wont give us the password for the vcenter account b/c they said its a password they use on all clients and they dont want us to have it. can i install our updated vCenter 4.1 on my workstation and manage the cluster or would all the settings be lost?
Im not sure. I suggest you also ask this question on VMWare's forum before you risk making a difficult situation worse. -
cyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 Mod
Is the vCenter PC/server joined to a domain? If so, you should be able to log in with a domain admin account. -
tdean Member Posts: 520
cyberguypr wrote: »Is the vCenter PC/server joined to a domain? If so, you should be able to log in with a domain admin account. -
Stiltz79 Member Posts: 74 ■■□□□□□□□□
Can you login as another account wth admin rights and change the password? -
MentholMoose Member Posts: 1,525 ■■■■■■■■□□
Can you ask the former company to send someone to change the password? You can reset the the Windows administrator account password to get access to the server and vCenter:
Forgot the Administrator's Password? - Windows Password Recovery - Windows Password Reset
Don't install vCenter on your workstation, except as a temporary solution. It is a database-driven server application that controls the ESX machines, not simply a client.MentholMoose
MCSA 2003, LFCS, LFCE (expired), VCP6-DCV -
tdean Member Posts: 520
thanks for the replies guys... i read that it was tied to the local admin acct, so i changed that and im in!!
when we upgrade, should i install this on a server or a stand alone pc like this? -
kalebksp Member Posts: 1,033 ■■■■■□□□□□
Install it on a server, it's an important part of the infrastructure. Personally I like to virtualize my VC so that it can benefit from HA like the other VMs and I have one less physical server. -
tdean Member Posts: 520
Install it on a server, it's an important part of the infrastructure. Personally I like to virtualize my VC so that it can benefit from HA like the other VMs and I have one less physical server. -
RTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
Just to throw an alternative preference into the mix, I prefer the vSphere server as either a separate physical server or a virtual server in a separate environment. You don't run into an annoying issues when you need to bring the entire environment down for yearly / major updates / modifications or disaster events when your virtual environment is down. Same goes for at least a single domain controller.