I have a bad feeling you all will tell me I am out of Luck but I have run into an issue.
I have an ESXi Hypervisor running at home. It is the free version running on an older Dell PC I have. I only really have 2 active VM's. Several Months ago I installed 6.5 on this newer older Dell and moved my disks to the new system. I got most things set up just like under 6.0 and left it alone. I was going to show my son something in the ESXi interface when I tried to log in as root I could not. I am 99.999% sure I have not been hacked and I have not changed the password. When I looked online I see the issue of expiring password. I assume that is what happened to the root account. I am hoping there is a way to get into the box. When I am at the console and hit the F2 key it prompts for a login. My root password does not work there. Any ideas? I really do not want to lose my VM's and I know that one of the VM's is on the same drive as the boot drive. Any recommendations or help would be greatly appreciated.