Hello all,
So, wanting to create a new VM on a machine, I went and tried to login to ESXI Web UI, only to get the message that I am using an incorrect username or password... Those I'm using, the root and pwd have been working perfectly fine for the past months following the installation of ESXi (v6).
From what I've gathered on the forums, the account could be on lockdown. My first question then is: will the lockdown lift itself up after some times?
If not, I've also read that, since I'm not linked to an AD server, the only way to reset the password would be through an unsupported method, that I will keep for last resort only of course.
Now, I cannot login to the UI and I cannot also login via SSH either. For now, the only logical possible solution would be to at least try to reboot the machine, but I'll have to hard reset the server. But before doing this, I want to know if I'm missing something obvious here?
The only thing that changed lately was, around 10 days ago, my 60 days evaluation ended, and I had to login to enter my free licence informations. To be honest, I'm a bit afraid of having to do a hard reboot since at that time, I remember the VM needing a manual power on (although it might be because I did not enter the licence yet). I just don't want to be stuck in the possibility of being locked out ESXi while my VM won't auto start !
Thank you for you answers and inputs!