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vCloud Director Appliance Password

Duncan Epping · Jan 26, 2012 ·

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 = [email protected]
  • VMware vCenter Operations Manager
    username = admin
    password =  admin

 

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Server vcd, vcloud, vmware vcloud director

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  1. andreas says

    26 January, 2012 at 10:55

    Yeah, I definitely had that problem with the vCloud Director appliance! 😀

  2. Daragh says

    26 January, 2012 at 12:10

    How about the vDR Appliance:
    username = root
    password = [email protected]

    Is the root password the same for the vMA also?

  3. Niels says

    26 January, 2012 at 12:48

    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?

  4. Ben says

    26 January, 2012 at 12:51

    Is a vCD appliance for productive use planned?

  5. Duncan Epping says

    26 January, 2012 at 13:01

    Valid question @niels, I will address this internally.

    @ben: cannot comment on that.

    @Daragh –> vSphere Management Assistant = vMA 🙂

  6. Jason Boche says

    26 January, 2012 at 17:45

    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. Daragh says

    26 January, 2012 at 18:45

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

    vi-admin is created on initialization.

    Ta.

  8. Terry says

    17 April, 2012 at 17:29

    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. Dave says

    21 May, 2013 at 20:24

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

    • Dave says

      21 May, 2013 at 20:32

      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

  10. akmal says

    21 September, 2013 at 21:50

    Hi Duncan,

    The default password for vCloud Director Appliance 5.1 is “vmware”

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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