By default, the root account on the vCSA 5.5 expires 90 days after installation if you don’t change the password. If you don’t follow these steps, you’re going to find yourself in a panic in about a quarter 🙂 This is taken from the vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration VMware KB article.
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