Safeguard for Privileged Passwords supports VMware ESXi hosts.
IMPORTANT: Safeguard for Privileged Passwords can only manage local users on a VMware host.
To prepare a VMware ESXi host for Safeguard for Privileged Passwords
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Use an existing account or create a new account as the service account on the asset and assign it a password.
The default administrator account is suitable.
- Grant the service account the privileges required to set user passwords using the web management API.
- When adding a VMware ESXi host to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords:
- Specify the network address.
- Specify port 443 as the HTTPS port.