Remote console URL

[jplowick]

I'm currently running two stand-alone ESX 3.5 servers and use the "Generate Remote Console URL" feature under Web Access to give access to certain VM consoles. I will probably be upgrading to vSphere in a few months and I'm debating on using ESX or ESXi (on a USB stick). Does vCenter support this custom URL feature to give access to VM consoles? I don't want to have to use the VI client to do all of my management, as the web access is real handy. If it doesn't, I guess I have to stick with ESX.

Thanks!

Joe P.

[lamw]

Yes the functionality is still there with vSphere.

You can even use this vSphere SDK for Perl script to generate the remote URLs:

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[jplowick]

Thanks for the info. The only reason I ran ESX was for the web access feature, but if vCenter can offer that then I can switch over to ESXi.