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vCloud Suite Virtual Appliances: Passwords, Databases, URLs, etc

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I recently re-organized my home lab and I got rid of a bunch of VMs for random projects that I have been working on last year. Part of this re-organization was to re-deploy a few of the virtual appliances found within the vCloud Suite. As part of the deployment, I often find myself scouring various documents looking for default credentials to the OS, VAMI interface or the application. It is not always easy to find and I often end up going to Google or the VMTN forums for the answer.

As a fun little exercise, I thought why not deploy all of the latest virtual appliance that are available in the vCloud Suite and just document the latest usernames/passwords for the application, OS, VAMI interface, database configurations, URLs, etc.? This would primarily be a reference for myself, but thought it might also benefit others as well. Duncan Epping had done this awhile back for vCloud Director and few other virtual appliance and funny enough, his site was one of the first ones I found for the default vCloud Director password.

Not only have I deployed all the virtual appliances from the vCloud Suite, which can be seen from the screenshot below,  but I also went through each appliance and validated the credentials for the application, OS or VAMI interface if applicable as well as identify all database credentials and configurations which are not all publicly documented (this took a bit of digging in the appliances, but was not too difficult if you know where to look).

Note: All credentials and configurations were identified by going through public documentation and exploring the virtual appliances, internal VMware documentation and Wikis were not used (that would have been too easy)

Below is a quick summary of the credentials for the each of the application, OS, VAMI interface as well as applicable database configurations for the 15 virtual appliances within the vCloud Suite. To view the full report on all the virtual appliances in the vCloud Suite, you can refer to either the Spreadsheet or HTML report.

vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 2.0.0

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: SAME AS OS PASSWORD
Database Type: N/A
Database Name: N/A
Default Database Port: N/A
Default DB Username: N/A
Default DB Password: N/A

vCenter Operations Manager (UI) 5.6.0

Default App Username: admin
Default App Password: admin
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: vmware
Default VAMI Username: N/A
Default VAMI Password: N/A
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: cmapp
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: cm
Default DB Password: RANDOMLY-GENERATED (refer to spreadsheet/HTML report below for more details)

vCenter Operations Manager (Analytics) 5.6.0

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: vmware
Default VAMI Username: N/A
Default VAMI Password: N/A
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: alivevm
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: alive
Default DB Password: RANDOMLY-GENERATED (refer to spreadsheet/HTML report below for more details)

vCenter Orchestrator 5.1.0

Default App Username: vmware
Default App Password: vmware
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: vmware
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: vmware
Database Type: postgres
Database Name: vmware
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: vmware
Default DB Password: vmware

vCenter Server Appliance 5.1.0b

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: vmware
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: vmware
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: VCDB
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: vc
Default DB Password: RANDOMLY-GENERATED (refer to spreadsheet/HTML report below for more details)

vCloud Connector (Server) 2.0.0

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: vmware
Default VAMI Username: admin
Default VAMI Password: vmware
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: hcs1
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: postgres
Default DB Password: postgres

vCloud Connector (Node) 2.0.0

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: vmware
Default VAMI Username: admin
Default VAMI Password: vmware
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: hcs
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: postgres
Default DB Password: N/A

vCloud Director 5.1.1

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: Default0
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: vmware
Database Type: Oracle
Database Name: XE
Default Database Port: 1521
Default DB Username: vcloud
Default DB Password: VCloud

vCloud Networking and Security 5.1.2

Default App Username: admin
Default App Password: default
Default OS Username: admin
Default OS Password: default
Default VAMI Username: N/A
Default VAMI Password: N/A
Database Type: N/A
Database Name: N/A
Default Database Port: N/A
Default DB Username: N/A
Default DB Password: N/A

vFabric Application Director 5.0.0

Default App Username: admin
Default App Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default OS Username: root or darwin_user
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: SAME AS OS PASSWORD
Database Type: postgres
Database Name: darwin
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: darwin
Default DB Password: N/A

vFabric Hyperic Server (Server) 5.0.0

Default App Username: hqadmin
Default App Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Database Type: N/A
Database Name: N/A
Default Database Port: N/A
Default DB Username: N/A
Default DB Password: N/A

vFabric Hyperic Server (DB) 5.0.0

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: SAME AS OS PASSWORD
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: HQ
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: hqadmin
Default DB Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT

vMA 5.1.0

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: vi-admin
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: vi-admin
Default VAMI Password: SAME AS OS PASSWORD
Database Type: N/A
Database Name: N/A
Default Database Port: N/A
Default DB Username: N/A
Default DB Password: N/A

vSphere Data Protection 5.1.1

Default App Username: root
Default App Password: changeme
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: N/A
Default VAMI Password: N/A
Database Type: postgres
Database Name: vdrdb
Default Database Port: 5555
Default DB Username: admin
Default DB Password: N/A

vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1

Default App Username: N/A
Default App Password: N/A
Default OS Username: root
Default OS Password: SET DURING DEPLOYMENT
Default VAMI Username: root
Default VAMI Password: SAME AS OS PASSWORD
Database Type: vPostgres
Database Name: vrmsdb
Default Database Port: 5432
Default DB Username: vrmsdb
Default DB Password: N/A

VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) 5.1 VCDB & SSODB Password

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I recently helped answer a question internally about the default credentials to the VCSA 5.1 (vCenter Server Appliance) vCenter Server and SSO (Single-Sign On) Database for troubleshooting purposes. I thought I share the details in case this might help others.

With the release of the vSphere 5.1, the VCSA now runs VMware's vPostgres database for both the VCDB and SSODB. You should also know there is no default credentials for the database as the passwords are automatically generated during the initial application install and the database password will be unique on every VCSA.

However, you can still retrieve the password for both the VCDB as well as SSODB (this took a bit of digging in the appliance).

Disclaimer: You should not have any reason to go into the actual DB of either vCenter Server or SSO other than potential troubleshooting with VMware Support. Please use caution if you do choose to connect to the DB, as you can potentially impact your system.

VCDB Credentials:
You can view the credentials for the VCDB in the following file: /etc/vmware-vpx/vcdb.properties

Here is a screenshot of the file content as well as using psql client located on the VCSA (/opt/vmware/vpostgres/1.0/bin/psql) to connect to the VCDB:

SSODB Credentials:
You can view the credentials for the SSODB in the following file: /usr/lib/vmware-sso/webapps/lookupservice/WEB-INF/classes/config.properties

Here is a screenshot of the file content as well as using psql client located on the VCSA to connect to the SSODB: