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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).

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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: