My company recently took over control of our VMware environment from a managed services company. They had somehow managed to lose/not record the root password for two of our hosts. It would appear the only VMware supported method of resetting the root password is to reinstall the host (VMware KB 1317898). After some preliminary research, we discovered an article that suggests an alternative method to change the root password by creating a host profile, editing the admin password in the host profile then applying only the security configuration from the host profile to the problematic host. While this looks like it may work, we are not licensed for vSphere Enterprise Plus as is mentioned in the article.
Could the license version affect the process? Are there any adverse affects that we are not aware of related to using this particular method to change the root password?
