Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

vCloud Director Appliance Password

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Although this is documented on page 59 of the excellent Evaluators Guide I figured it wouldn’t hurt to write a tiny blog post. I found myself googling for it multiple times already with no succes, so there must be more people facing that “problem”. Below you can find the passwords of the vCloud Director Appliance and the embedded database, just in case you need it:

  • VMware vCloud Director Appliance:
    username = root
    password = Default0
  • VMware vCloud Director Appliance/Oracle Database 11g R2 XE instance:
    username = vcloud
    password = VCloud
While we are at it, these are the passwords for other appliances:
  • VMware vCenter Server Appliance:
    username = root
    password = vmware
  • VMware vShield Manager Appliance:
    username = admin
    password = default
  • vSphere Management Assistant (vMA):
    username = vi-admin
    password = <defined during configuration>
  • vSphere Data Recovery Appliance:
    username = root
    password = vmw@re
  • VMware vCenter Operations Manager
    username = admin
    password =  admin

 

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  2. How about the vDR Appliance:
    username = root
    password = vmw@re

    Is the root password the same for the vMA also?

  3. I wonder why they don’t use one password for all of them? I mean everyone changes them at once so why use different ones for every Appliance?

  6. So simple, yet so helpful. I’ve not had too much trouble quickly finding the root password for various VMware appliances but hopefully this page ranks high on Google searches as well.

    @ben, I am not a VMware employee so I can comment on your question: I don’t know. 🙂

  7. Yep, but I forget what the “root” password is! 🙂

    vi-admin is created on initialization.

    Ta.

  8. The root user is disabled by default, however it should take on the password you set on vi-admin.

    sudo su you will get an error the user is not available, but just going sudo and using your vi-admin password works.

  9. The DB password seems to have changed in 5.1.2, vcloud and VCloud aren’t working for me 🙁

    • Correction, the permissions on the Oracle binary seem to be incorrect!

      I was getting…

      ERROR:
      ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

      at login, but…

      cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
      chmod 6751 oracle

      …enables login through sqlplus vcloud/VCloud