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HOW TO REBOOT VMWARE ESXI 5 HOW TO
HOW TO REBOOT VMWARE ESXI 5 ARCHIVE
HOW TO REBOOT VMWARE ESXI 5 PASSWORD

We’re almost done! Just type reboot then remove the live CD and wait for ESXi server to restart.

Re-pack the files and copy the modified state.tgz file back to the ESXi system partition with the following commands:.

This will save your changes and exit the vi editor.

HOW TO REBOOT VMWARE ESXI 5 PASSWORD

Once you have removed the password hash, press ESC to return to the command mode.To remove the existing root password, you need to delete the password hash. You’ll find out that the password hash of the root account is surrounded by the first two colons. Run the vi shadow command to open the shadow file in the vi editor.Go to the /etc directory and you can gain access to the shadow file which contains the password hash of ESXi root account.Unpack the local.tgz file which has the /etc directory compressed in it.

HOW TO REBOOT VMWARE ESXI 5 ARCHIVE

Copy state.tgz to the /tmp folder, and then unpack the state.tgz file which contains another compressed archive named local.tgz.

After mounting, you’ll see the state.tgz file that we need to unpack now.

In terminal, type “sudo -s” to gain root access and then mount the ESXi system partition with the following commands.

Now that we know that the partition which we need to mount is /dev/sda5, close GParted and open the Terminal.

The actual hypervisor/system image is located on the first 250 MB partition (/dev/sda5) which contains the state.tgz file. Double-click on GParted Partition Editor to launch it.

After getting to the Ubuntu desktop, click on the Ubuntu icon in the upper left corner and search for GParted in the Dash.

Click on “Try Ubuntu” to load Ubuntu directly into RAM, without installing it on your hard drive. After a while, the system installer will appear with the option to “Try Ubuntu” or “Install Ubuntu”. Boot your ESXi server from Ubuntu Live CD.

HOW TO REBOOT VMWARE ESXI 5 HOW TO

How to Reset VMware ESXi Root Password with Ubuntu Live CD? This tutorial explains how to use Ubuntu Live CD to reset forgotten root password on VMware ESXi 5.5, so you can log back into your ESXi server without reinstalling. Just boot your server with a Linux Live CD and you can remove the root password easily. Lost or forgot the root password of VMware ESXi host? Is there any way to recover or reset it? Just like many Linux distributions, VMware ESXi also stores user account information, including one-way encrypted passwords, in a file called /etc/shadow.