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Learning VMware vSphere

You're reading from   Learning VMware vSphere Lay the foundations for data center virtualization using VMware vSphere 6 and strengthen your understanding of its power

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782174158
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Learning VMware vSphere
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. An Introduction to Server Virtualization Using VMware FREE CHAPTER 2. The Hypervisor – ESXi 3. The Management Layer – VMware vCenter 4. vSphere Networking Concepts and Management 5. vSphere Storage Concepts and Management 6. Advanced vSphere Infrastructure Management 7. Understanding Host Profiles, Image Profiles, and Auto Deploy 8. Virtual Machines Concepts and Management 9. Monitoring Performance of a vSphere Environment 10. Certificate Management for a vSphere Environment 11. Securing a vSphere Environment 12. Life Cycle Management of a vSphere Environment

Creating additional local users on an ESXi host


It is not best practice to share the root credentials to users other than the administrator. You can either add users from the active directory, or create additional local users on an ESXi host using the vSphere Client, and assign the level of access the user will have on the ESXi host and its objects. In this topic, we will cover the procedure for creating additional local users.

By default, an ESXi host will have three default users created:

  • The vpx user: The vCenter will have an administrator's role on every ESXi host that it is configured to manage. This is achieved by creating a user called the vpxuser with the administrator role assigned to it, and this is done automatically by the vCenter managing the host.

  • The dcui user: The DCUI is severed by a process running on ESXi. The dcui user is used by DCUI to modify the locked down mode.

  • The root account: This the mandatory root account on an ESXi host.

To create a new user:

  1. Connect to the ESXi...

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