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VMware ACE Administrator’s Manual
On the Recovery Key tab, you may specify the public key to be used for access to
encrypted virtual machines. If you specify password protection for a virtual machine
and want to be able to reset the password for a deployed virtual machine, you must
specify a recovery key before you create the package that includes the virtual
machine.
Select Use recovery key to configure a recovery key.
To use an existing PEM-format key pair, click Browse for Existing Key to navigate to
the public key of the pair you want to use.
To create a new PEM-format key pair, click Create New Recovery Key. The Create New
Recovery Key dialog box appears.
Enter a name and location for the key pair. Enter and confirm the password to protect
the private key. Then click OK to generate the keys. It takes several seconds to
generate the keys. When the keys are generated and saved, the Create New Recovery
Key dialog box disappears and the newly generated public key is listed in the field on
the Recovery Key tab.
Note: You must know the password for the private key and the location of the
private key file in order to reset an end user’s password.