Monthly Archives: April 2014

Resetting vCloud Automation Center 6.x Service Account Passwords

VMware vCloud Automation Center uses Active Directory service accounts to run several internal services and processes. In many environments it is required to reset the passwords for these service accounts at various intervals. As you can imagine, resetting the password for a given service account will cause the associated services to stop functioning until they are updated with the new password. A customer recently pointed out that there is no official documentation that provides guidance for updating the services used by vCAC to prevent a service outage. So, naturally, I figured I’d put this out there until such documentation is provided…

Before proceeding, determine exactly which service accounts are mapped to which services to prevent a misconfiguration. Follow these steps after changing the service account password and during a maintenance window….  …