I recently received several existing ESX hosts to support. As part of the transition I received the root password used by all of the hosts. I wanted to verify that the password I had was correct, so I threw together a quick script. You may notice below that the password had a dollar sign in it, which as you may know is a special character in powershell so it needed to be escaped with a back tick. <\/p>\n
\r\n$esxHosts = \"esxi01.test.local\",\"esxi02.test.local\"\r\n$esxHosts += \"esxi03.test.local\",\"esx04.test.local\"\r\n$esxHosts += \"esx05.test.local\",\"esxi06.test.local\"\r\n\r\n$esxHosts |%{\r\n $hostName = $_\r\n $connection = Connect-Viserver $_ -user root -password \"pa`$`$w0rd\" -ea:0\r\n New-Object PSObject -Property @{\r\n Name=$hostName\r\n IsConnected=$connection.IsConnected\r\n VMCount = (Get-VM).Count\r\n }#end psobject\r\n Disconnect-viserver * -confirm:$false\r\n}#end host loop\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I recently received several existing ESX hosts to support. As part of the transition I received the root password used by all of the hosts. I wanted to verify that the password I had was correct, so I threw together … Continue reading