rdp acess to vSphere

[mla_]

Hello,

I would like to know what is the RDP access option to vSphere and how to configure and troubleshoot it.

After new installation of 2 ESX 4 hosts I found an rdp icon pointing to one of the hosts.

The user (advanced user in a remote office) told that the integrator installed this icon on his machine and it is not full root access.

I believe it wood provide VMs view. But I never heared about this option.

Thanks,

Michael.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

vSphere doesn't provide an option to configure RDP for Windows VMs.  You can use the vSphere client to access the VM's console, but if you RDP access you have to configure that for each VM (and the client on each PC as well).  There is an RDP plug-in for the vSphere client, but that still assumes that RDP has been configured - http://xtravirt.com/vsphere-client-rdp-plug-in.

[AndreTheGiant]

As written ESX/ESXi does not have any RDP access.

If you have vCenter you can enable RDP on this server.

Andre

[idle-jam]

the cloest to have a view of the VM would be using VMware vSphere client which provide a virtual KVM access to the VM.