This tab details the accounts and initial passwords for the Cloud Foundation components. You must provide input for each yellow box. A red cell may indicate that validations on the password length has failed.

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Update the Default Password field for each user (including the automation user in the last row). Passwords can be different per user or common across multiple users. The tables below provide details on password requirements.
Table 1. Password Complexity
Password Complexity
ESXi Hosts This is the password which you configured on the hosts during ESXi installation.
Default Single-Sign on Domain User SSO
vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller virtual appliance root account SSO
NSX Manager Administrator account Standard
NSX Manager CLI Standard
NSX Controller Admin Standard
Operations Management Layer
vRealize Log Insight admin account vRLI
vRealize Log Insight root account Standard
SDDC Manager
SDDC Manager appliance root account Standard
SDDC Manager super user Standard
SDDC Manager REST API user Standard
Table 2. Password Requirements based on Complexity
Password Type Requirements Based on Complexity
Standard
  1. Length 8-12 characters
  2. Must include:
    • mix of upper-case and lower-case letters
    • a number
    • a special character such as @ ! # $ % ^ or ?
  3. Cannot include: * { } [ ] ( ) / \ ' " ` ~ , ; : . < >
SSO (accounts in SSO vsphere.local)
  1. Length 8-20 characters
  2. Must include:
    • mix of upper-case and lower-case letters
    • a number
    • a special character
vRLI
  1. Length 8-12 characters
  2. Must include:
    • mix of upper-case and lower-case letters
    • a number
    • a special character
  3. Must not include a character repeated more than twice