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Belle Roetcisoender
I have a vsphere essentials 7 liscense which is for 3 servers. I decided to buy vsphere essentials 8 but it turns out one of the hosts is older hardware and likely wont be supported. Can vCenter 8 manage both esxi 8 and esxi 7 hosts?
trying to upgrade an aging system, ordered a vpshere 7 license for 1 of 3 hosts, the other 2 are 6.7 and are being managed by Vcenter 6.7. If I upgrade the host to vsphere 7 will my vcenter 6.7 be able to add and manage it?
Need some guidance, I can't seem to login as root to my Vcenter appliance 6.7. I can log into the VAMI just fine but not vcenter. It isn't on the domain but I do have a .local group. I'm tried root@localos as the username but it's a no go. While logged in with a .local login I can see the localos\root account and it says it isn't locked or expired. I thought maybe I was bitten by the bug so many got caught by and went though the proceedure to reset the root account found here VMware Knowledge Base
'root' login is only for the vCSA operating system. It can be used to login to the appliance OS and the VAMI page. To login to the vCenter (via Web Client or HTML), you need to use the vCenter application account. By default, you can use admini...@vsphere.local account. For this account, you would have set the SSO password during the time of installation.
But.. after migrating from 5.5 to 6.5 this was not a valid user within vCenter anymore and was unable to login. We grand permission to localos\root by using admini...@vsphere.local and then it works as before.
One of our servers was hit with a ransomware attack and we had to roll back to old replicas. Now, we are unable to login to our legacy VCenter (v5.5.0) instance through VSphere Client (v5.1.0). The PC and vSphere Client app we're using to connect is the same (it's an old Win7 machine). Nothing about that machine has changed. We're attempting to log on the exact same way we did before. The error we get is "You do not have permission to log on to the server". I've also tried using the local root account but it won't let me log in either. NOTE, I can login to the VM instance through console using the root account. But I am not terribly familiar with how to interact with the vCenter via command line. The vCenter won't accept this user login through VSphere Client. I've tried adding the local machine name as the domain prior to the user as well (vcenter.blah.blah\root). Any thoughts on what I can do to regain access to the vCenter through vSphere Client? This issue is preventing our replication software from working, it does everything through the vCenter instance. So a last-ditch work-around I guess would be to figure out how to disconnect the independent servers from the vCenter through the console somehow and just deal with the Servers individually, that is something I am willing to accept if needed. Thanks for any advice that can be offered.
First I suggest you point your browser at the vCenter and download the vsphere client for that version of vCenter. I think the version numbers should be the same - at least major and minor. BTW, is the vCenter running on Windows or is this the vCenter appliance?
My knowledge is crusty, but I've been using the thick client just the past week. It really as 5.1 and then you could get it to work with 5.5 and also 6.0. I don't think you need any stuff about like turning on SSH, but do take this comment "Reminder, "root" in vMware-land is also Administrator at vsphere.local" which you probably are.
You need to create Target for all vcenter for your environment to get VM host details. Post Target creation, Assign subnet to respective Beacon. In Beacon under password management tab, Enter vcenter credential over there.
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