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Reset VMware vCenter Root Password

Reset VMware vCenter Root Password

You should always know the root password for your VMware vCenter. Fortunately, if you don’t remember your VMware vCenter root password, there’s a way to reset it.

In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to reset the root password for VMware vCenter.

The Process

  • To be extra safe, take a snapshot of your current vCenter VM.
  • Determine which ESXi host is running your vCenter VM by looking at the related objects and the host listed.
  • Connect to the ESXi host that is housing the vCenter VM.
  • Restart the vCenter VM.
  • When you see the Photon boot screen, press the letter e.
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Palo Alto Private Data Reset with HA (Active/Passive)

Palo Alto Private Data Reset with HA (Active/Passive)

Sometimes, you need to do a quick factory reset on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. If you aren’t decommissioning the firewall, a Private Data Reset can be a faster way to accomplish similar results as a factory reset and can be done via CLI directly and could technically be done remotely with some coordination.

In this post, I will show you step-by-step instructions on how to perform a private data reset on a primary Palo Alto Networks firewall in an Active/Passive High Availability Pair using the GUI and the CLI.

The Process

HA Election Settings

If the HA election settings are set to preemptive, we need to disable that.

HA Election Settings GUI

  • On the Primary firewall, click on Device.
  • Click on High Availability
  • Uncheck Preemptive (if it isn’t selected, you don’t need to do anything)
  • Commit the changes

HA Election Settings CLI

  • SSH into the Primary firewall
  • Enter the configuration mode by running the command configure
  • Run the following command to output your HA election settings show deviceconfig high-availability group election-option

If preemptive is set to yes, make a note of that (if it isn’t selected, you don’t need to do anything)

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