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For instructions on how to connect to VMware PowerCLI, Follow the post here:
Change the password from vmware12! to the root password used on the environment.
Get-VMHost -state Disconnected | foreach-object {
$vmhost = $_
$connectSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostConnectSpec
$connectSpec. force = $true
$connectSpec. hostName = $vmhost.name
$connectSpec. userName = 'root'
$connectSpec. password = 'vmware12!'
$vmhost. extensionData.ReconnectHost_Task( $connectSpec,$null )
}
restart the replication appliance to GRUB
at the grub screen, select SLES 11/12xxx Press ‘e’
Scroll down and look for show opts.
append “init=/bin/bash” to the same line
press f10 on the keyboard to boot
remount the root partition as RW
mount -o remount,rw /
To unlock the locked account, use the below command./sbin/pam_tally2 -r -u root
/sbin/pam_tally2 -r -u root
To reset the password, Use the below:
passwd rootType exit to reboot the appliance