{"id":1176,"date":"2019-07-25T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adg.vn\/en\/tin-cong-nghe\/dell-14g-poweredge-what-is-the-default-vmware-esxi-roots-password-for-r740-r640-and-14g-servers"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:08:58","slug":"dell-14g-poweredge-what-is-the-default-vmware-esxi-roots-password-for-r740-r640-and-14g-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adg.vn\/en\/tech-news\/dell-14g-poweredge-what-is-the-default-vmware-esxi-roots-password-for-r740-r640-and-14g-servers","title":{"rendered":"Dell 14G PowerEdge: What is the Default VMWare ESXi root\u2019s password for R740, R640 and 14G Servers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides information about changes on factory installed VMWare ESXi operating systems with the launch of the 14th generation (14G) of DellEMC PowerEdge servers. 14G servers include the following models R740XD, R740, R640, R540, R440, T640, T440, M640 and FC640.<\/p>\n<p>What has changed?<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 changes regarding the factory installation of VMWare ESXi operating systems:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>root password\u00a0<\/strong>is<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<strong>Service Tag\u00a0<\/strong>of the machine. This can be changed during deployment.<br \/> Previously there was no password set and this change\u00a0<strong>only affects 14G systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The following message can appear and explains that the root password is the service tag:<\/li>\n<li>OS Installations with the\u00a0<strong>BOSS-S1<\/strong>\u00a0device will not have the\u00a0<strong>VMFS<\/strong>\u00a0datastore enabled by default.<br \/> DellEMC recommends setting the BOSS-S1 device\u00a0<strong>as a boot device only<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2145210\">VMWare KB 2145210<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: DellEMC\u00a0<strong>13G PowerEdge<\/strong>\u00a0servers, factory installed with VMWare ESXi, will continue to have\u00a0<strong>no password<\/strong>\u00a0set for\u00a0<strong>root\u00a0<\/strong>username.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides information about changes on factory installed VMWare ESXi operating systems with the launch of the 14th generation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dell 14G PowerEdge: What is the Default VMWare ESXi root\u2019s password for R740, R640 and 14G Servers? 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