VMware 5.1: Connecting to vcenter server

Hello,

vmware is a tough platform to follow, well for me anyway.

Due to their recommendation of moving away of the vmware player, we have decided for v10 to move to the PowerCLI to open consoles. We had been getting more and more errors of "wmware player is not installed properly, please re-install" so we just moved away from that technology as a whole.

Although all is not well with the PowerCLI, for instance we cannot make it work embedded as of now, it seems to be working better for our community. It brought some deployment issues and backward compatibility concerns (http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/troubleshooting_vmware.htm), but I feel we've improved usability.

I would say that if you are running the latest version of vSphere, then upgrade to RDM 10 makes a lot of sense. If you are using an older vSphere, then do not upgrade for better vmware support (there are tons of other good reasons to upgrade though). One thing for sure is that an embedded console is not in the cards at this time, be it for v9 or v10.

Hello Maurice,

thx for fast answer. We were lucky using RDM 9 (using 15 % of capabilities :-) ) and decided not to update to v10.
Now you bringing the killer argument for upgrade.

Lets discuss this with my coworkers (who prints the money?).

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Now we updated to 10.0.4 and it works.
Additional software needed:
from VMware: VMware-PowerCLI-5.8.0-2057893.exe
from Microsoft: Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64 (e.g. Powershell 3.0)

slow start of connection (the vsphere client takes the same time), but a nice overview to the vm´s, better than the vsphere client.

Now my provider presents me a xen server, next problem - new thread

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