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Issue : Configure Management Network option is Grayed out into ESXi

Last week I got into an issue of one of my client into Vsphere environment where one of its ESXi went done out of the network. Issue was IP address was showing 0.0.0.0 on main Esxi screen and when I tried to change the network configuration, its " Configure Management network option was greyed out.  I tried to gid into it and try to analyis its vmKernal and vmwarning logs. What I found is its VMkernal switch got removed due to unexpected reason. So to resolve the issue I tried to reconfigure its vswitch0 (vmk0) by going into Tech Mode of that Exi. Below are the steps which I followed to resolve the issue. 1) Login to ESXi 2) Press F2, Check if you " Configure Management network " is greyed out or not" if yes,    follow below 3) Press ALT+F1 to move the ESXi screen to tech mode   ( This is command line like dos) 4) login with root account 5) Run the following command into it esxcli network ip interface add --interface-name= vmk0

SSO Password reset process and lockout process

Basically there are 2 way to reset the SSO password ·       From Command line ·       VMware vSphere Web Client ·       If by any chance if your password got lock or want to change the SSO password then it would be difficult to revert back unless changing the policy of SSO Password. By default it will not allow to reuse any previous 5 passwords.   ·       To change the password policy from web client pls follow below mentioned step.               1)      Login to Vmware vsphere web client               2)      Click Home à Click Configuration à Select Policy à Password policy               3)      Click Edit ·       Change the Users cannot reuse any previous password to 1 ·       Click OK ·       Click on SSO Users and Groups ·       Click user “admin” à Right Click and select Edit settings and change the password ·       Again got to Password policy and  Change the Users cannot reuse any previous password to 5 ·       Click OK ·        

To reset the SSO administrator password on a Windows server:

Note : Resetting the password will also unlock the administrator account . 1.      Login as an administrator to the vCenter SSO server. 2.      Click  Start  >  Run , type cmd, and click  OK . The Command Prompt window opens. 3.      Navigate to the directory  SSOInstallDirectory \utils.  By default, the installation directory is  C:\Program   Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer \ utils . 4.      Run this command: rsautil reset-admin-password 5.      Enter the master password when prompted. Note : This is the password  s elected for the SSO administrator during the SSO installation. If you have changed your SSO administrator password later, the master password is still the original one chosen. 6.      Enter the SSO administrator name for which you want to reset the password. For example,  admin . 7.      Enter the new password for the user and then confirm it a second time. You should see the message   Password reset successfully .