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Is there a lightweight way to provide console only access to VMware vSphere 5 hosted machines?

We would like to provide console only access to certain machines hosted on vSphere. How would one set the permissions to achieve this goal with the full client? Is there a lightweight console-only ...
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vSphere SDK- How to Create user in Guest OS?

I am using vSphere 5 java SDK for provision vmware. I could able to create Linux vmware. But I want to create users inside the newly created Guest vmware? Is there any API to create users?
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Remove old vCenter servers from VMWare vSphere Client login window

After changing our vCenter servers recently, the old vCenter server is still listed in the VMWare vSphere Client login dialog in the IP Address / Name: drop down. Is there a way to remove the ...
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Linux: How to Press Sysreq Key in VNC/Vsphere Client?

I'm using a Vsphere client on Windows XP over a VNC link (Vinagre) from an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop running WindowMaker. It all works pretty well, but I can't find any way to press the Magic SysReq key ...
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access ESXi from another PC

On my PC I have installed ESXi (WMware Workstation) & vSphere Client. I want to connect from my laptop to the ESXi Server. Can anyone help me out? I tried (in vSphere Client) to Add Networking -> ...
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Upload a https-link to a DataStore

I have a direct link to a 4GB file. How can I download it to a DataStore at vSphere 4? (without downloading it to my computer) Thanks in advance
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Help! vSphere 4.1 cloned VM from template keeps the same name as the seed VM!

IT just setup vCenter 4.1 for my team. Using vSphere client, I: Created a VM (name: A) Cloned to a template Deployed a VM (name: B) from the template, checked the option to name the computer name ...
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vSphere Client time zone problem

How to adjust time zone in vSphere client which is connected to vCenter server? I know ESXi runs in UTC, but there is also UTC in performance charts, I need local time.
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vSphere iPad Client performance graph scale?

The vSphere client for the iPad is brilliant, however I'm having a bit of trouble determining the X-axis scale for the graphs. What kind of time frame is that over? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 1 hour? ...
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How to change hostname of VM?

I am using vSphere Hypervisor 4.1.0 and vSphere Client and from the vSphere Client, if you go to the Summary tab of a VM, how do you change the Host name in the General box? I am stumped. I heard ...
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Why is VMware vSphere Client hanging at the console?

When I use the vSphere Client (against an ESXi 4.1 server) it hangs a lot. It's always at the same place - using the console on a VM. The console stops responding - and a lot of times, the management ...
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Can't connect to ESXi with vSphere Client

after changing IPs on of the ESXi hypervisor (without setting to maintenance mode), I can't access the vCenter Server with vSphere anymore. But I can access the ESXi over SSH. So, the IP is correct, ...
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When trying to copy a virtual disk in VMware vSphere client, I get an errror

I'm pretty new to all the VMware world, so this is probably mainly a question about the right set of documentation to look at. I'm trying to clone/copy a VM that I installed on an ESXi installation. ...
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“I/O Error Occurred” in vSphere Client working with ESXi

I have a datastore set up in ESXi where I put all my ISOs. Somehow, something broke (I don't know what) and now I can't upload files to that (or any other) datastore. For large, ISO-sized files, the ...
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VSphere statistics interpretation

Is there a simple summary...couple pages, maybe...explaining statistics and management information for VM's using vSphere Client 4 so we know about tuning VM's? Things like what's good or bad for host ...
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How do you get the VMWare vSphere client to work on Windows 7 RC?

When trying to connect to a ESXi server using the VMWare vShere Client I get an error: Error parsing the server "server" "clients.xml" file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator. ...