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I just inherited a VMware environment. &nbsp;I'm able to connect directly to my hosts using the root and PW. &nbsp;I can also use AD integration to logon. &nbsp;The problem is when I go logon to the vCenter server via the vSphere client I'm unable to use the root client, I can however use my AD user. &nbsp;The system is running ESXi 4.1. &nbsp;Any ideas?
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I just inherited a VMware environment.  I'm able to connect directly to my hosts using the root and PW.  I can also use AD integration to logon.  The problem is when I go logon to the vCenter server via the vSphere client I'm unable to use the root client, I can however use my AD user.  The system is running ESXi 4.1.  Any ideas?

Unable to logon to vCenter via the VSphere client using root.

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.