Login Error after install of ESX 3.5

[helena_petersen]

Hi,

I'm new to VMWare and have just installed 3.5 on my my Dell PowerEdge 2950.

I chose the recommended options and it all went through fine and rebooted.

Now when it asks for a login I entered "administrator" and the password I set during the install however it says it failed.

I have also tried it through the web interface but still get a login error.

Have I missed something? What is the login I should be using?

Thanks,

Helena

[ROMCH]

Hi,

During the setup process of the ESX you had to enter the password for the root user.

Use this for the login.

Regards,

Roland Mueller

[helena_petersen]

this is what I have been using. I even reinstalled it and changed the password because I thought I had set it wrong.

the login is just administrator, isn't it?

[ROMCH]

The default user for ESX 3.5 is "root". During the setup you had to enter a password for it.

So try to login with root and the password you did use fro it.

Regards, Roland

[helena_petersen]

YAY!! You rock!

I don't know why I didn't try that.

Thank you so much!

[helena_petersen]

So...now that I have logged in, how will I go about creating my first instance.

I feel like a complete twit, but I just haven't done this before.

[helena_petersen]

I think I've got it....through the infrastucture client, right....

[weinstein5]

Correct - you will use the VMware INfrastructure Client - check out these PDFs for additional information