Password reset for Windows Server local admin hosted on NUTANIX HCI
Hi, Password reset using the method where you change the accessibility button is pretty easy and pretty much covered in many blogs. In my previous post, I have covered how to do a password reset for Windows Server Core . However, with Nutanix, there is a need for VirtIO and their drivers, and this is something we usually forget when we do password reset for Windows servers being hosted on Nutanix. Before we begin, mount 1x Windows OS disk and 1x Nutanix VirtIO installer to the CD room drive. 1x CD rom = Windows OS disk 1x CD rom = Nutanix VirtIO 1. Power on the VM and boot from the Windows OS disk. 2. Click next and choose to repair the computer 3. Choose troubleshoot with CMD 4. Type: " wmic logicaldisk get caption " 5. Identify which drive is the OS disk and which drive is the VirtIO disk. in this example below, D drive is the VirtIO disk, X drive is the Windows OS disk. 6. Navigate to the VirtIO disk driver for your windows OS installation. For eg: cd d:\"Windows Ser...
