Usually, administrators using same password on all servers for easier management and there is some security reasons to change the password periodically such as defining an expire time for password or when one of members is left company. Changing user’s password or many users password on a single host is too easy but what about more than host? You know, VMware has provided some automation tools such as PowerCLI. The automation tools will help administrators to do their tasks much easier and faster than GUI. In this post, you’ll find a simple solution for changing multiple users password on multiple ESXi hosts. The Script! The below script will help you to change a user account’s password on multiple ESXi servers: I’ll publish another script to change multiple accounts password with multiple passwords on multiple ESXi servers. Read More on Teimouri.net [PowerCLI]: Add Local Administrator Account on ESXi Using Client Information in VMware View VMware Tools Client – Interact with a VM without Network Connectivity VMware View Pool Entitelement Cleanup Run ESXi Commands Via PowerShell And SSH ESXi Command-Line – Part 1 [Script]: Find ESXi HBA WWN via PowerCLI Check CPU, Memory and Storage OverCommitment – PowerCLI

The is some reason to have local user on ESXi servers even when there is vCenter server for management such as vCenter is inaccessible. You can use root user for doing operations on ESXi directly but some times, you have to ask someone to do the operations and then you will not have any tacking and all operation will be done by root user. So create user for trusted colleagues will help you to manage ESXi and track each user about what has he done. User creation is too easy, you can create users via vSphere Client (C# Client or Web Client) or by run some scripts. PowerCLI is automation tools for VMware products and you can use it for create more than one users by run few lines of script. The PowerCLI Script! You can use the below script for create users and assign proper roles to them but you must change something in the below script and customize it to use: The above script will create users with Administrator role and each user be able to manage all object under root folder. Also you can create group for different users and assign the role to the group instead...