Unable to login VCSA 6.5 after reboot

[RickyMartin0000]

hi,

My VCSA 6.5 was running perfectly fine with one ESXI 6.5 host and created couple of instances but after rebooting unable to login with the correct password.

I cannot revoke my ESXi host license as it was activated in VCSA, kindly advice to recover my VCSA without loosing anything.

Appreciate your support

[Alex_Romeo]

HI,

How to reset the lost or forgotten root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 & 6.7

VMware Knowledge Base

VCSA 6.5 reset root password - Opvizor | Opvizor

Have you tried if by chance you enter VAMI?

https://<ip-vcsa-or-fqdn>:5480/

ARomeo

[scott28tt]

Moderator: Moved to vCenter Server

[RickyMartin0000]

Hi AlessandroRomeo68,

Password resetted but still unable to login with the new password,

while booting, what i found is "FAILED TO START KERNEL MODULES" and one service was stopped so execute few commands to check the root directory consuming 100% and " service-control --start --all to start all the services but result same as before. here are the snapshot attached,

[msripada]

what is the error message when you try to login or a screenshot of error?

[Vijay2027]

Could be an issue with sshd config file or passwd config file..

Share output of below file:

cat /etc/passwd | grep -i root