We've got a serious problem: A server that we have inherited to support is running on an ESXi base system for which we seem to not have credentials. The only credentials we were given were for the 'root' user.
ssh was never enabled on the platform apparently as ssh attempts fail.
The ESXi base must be 6.5 or higher as vSphere client attempts fail with the expected error when tried from multiple machines.
https:// to the underlying ESXi raises the expected vmWare credentials prompt for User name and Password but the 'root' user and supplied password fail there.
Are there any back doors that we could try? Any suggestions related to breaking into the ESXi base?
thx, t.