Connection to vCenter VM with VMware Remote Console

[Buechen]

Hallo,

as I found out how to connect quickly to a VM without using vSphere Client, I've got the problem not being able to connect to a VM within vCenter. The general usage of the VMware Remote Console (vmware-vmrc.exe) looks like this:

vmware-vmrc.exe -h "HOSTNAME OR IP(:PORT)" -u "USERNAME" -p "PASSWORD" "[Datastore] VM/VM.vmx".

This works fine while connecting to a single ESX host. But I'd like to connect to a vCenter, too, because it is connected with Active Directory, so I can use AD credentials and besides if a VM changes the host, vCenter stays the same.

I get the message "Error opening the remote virtual machine vCenter\[DATASTORE] VM/VM.vmx: The request refers to an unexpected or unknown type."

When do I need to mention the port, actually?

Besides, where do I find an overview of all parameters for VMRC and vSphere Client?

Thank you

[firestartah]

Hi

I may be mistaken but having researched a little i'm 99% sure you can't use vmrc via the vcentre server you need to either connect via the esx host it is on.

Have a look at this discussion for some parameters.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/999988

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[Buechen]

Okay, now that I have to do it this way, to connect directly to the ESX host, which is the fewest privilege to only interact with the VM console. I added a user at ESX with a role, that has only "Console Interaction" checked, but it doesn't seem to be enough, while in vSphere it is enough? Which further right(s) do I need additionally for console interaction via VMRC?

[firestartah]

hi

The read only role should be exactly what you want for this or edit the Virtual machine user role and remove the settings you don't want

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