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Were they built through a vCenter or directly on an ESXi host? The OVAs need you to set the password via the initial config on a vCenter, but that doesn't work directly on an ESXi host and you won't be able to log in.
You can always just download the ISO image, upload it to the ESXi host, and use it in a virtual optical drive to install the OS.
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