ESXi VM Console Bandwidth

[jadams]

We have several "SupportVM's" that we use to connect to various customers' sites. We have these to not have every VPN client under the sun installed on our laptop. Also the majority of VPN's cut off all local LAN access and limit your internet access. All of these stupid restrictions seem to only be there to make it more difficult for me to do my job rather than incrased security... but i digress...

Anyway when local LAN is cutoff I cant remote desktop to it which is to be expected. So we're left loading up the vsphere client and accessing the VM's at the console. While on site its fairly snappy. But when we're VPN'd in its ungodly slow. I found that its actually using alot of bandwidth doing this.

Is there a way i can make the vsphere console to behave more like remote desktop?

 

[Dytralis]

have you tried http://labs.vmware.com/flings/boomerang ?

 

[michealo]

can also try VMware Guest Console (VGC)
http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vgc

 

[jadams]

awesome, ill give these a shot, thanks so much.

 

[lopoetve]

The web client, fwiw, seems WAY better at this too.

 

[Nate7311]

Maybe I'm missing something but why not just RDP into a local machine at your office and use the VMWare Client from that rather than running it over VPN? Console access through RDP isn't bad at all.

 

[jadams]

Maybe I'm missing something but why not just RDP into a local machine at your office and use the VMWare Client from that rather than running it over VPN? Console access through RDP isn't bad at all.

This will work. But it also adds another layer of "remoting"

My PC ---> Office Workstation ----> Vsphere ----> vpn'd workstation ----> server im working on

These VPN's that dont allow split tunneling in the name of security are really just a pain in the ass and really dont do much of anything to keep anyone out. Especially considering that through remote desktop I can mount my local drives anyway...