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Remotely Access vSphere

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feverlax

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I've just started out using ESXi 5.0 and have set up a few VMs on it and have things running great. The next thing I would like to do is be able to access/manage my VMs remotely mainly to use the VM I have setup for PERL while in my PERL class.

What is the best way to go about this? I've read about the vSphere Web Client, but it seems like that's just to manage the VMs, not to actually use them. Is that correct?

Thanks!
 
you can still use vsphere, just use the remote ip address of the server, make sure you can access the correct port
 
Just use the same management client you've been using. You can also just set up SSH/RDP on the guests themselves and remote into them this way.
 
What is the correct port to use for vSphere? I'm behind a router so I need to forward the correct ones
 
Agreed. It would be much better to use normal remote access methods for the VM in question e.g SSH,VNC etc. I don't see any reason to open up your hosts management interfaces to the outside world.

Just forward the SSH / VNC port in your router to the IP address of the Virtual machine in question.
 
What I've done at home is set up an OpenVPN connection I can use from work or elsewhere and drop onto my network. From there I can either log onto a Windows VM I set up to manage vSphere or if I'm on my Windows notebook I just launch the vSphere client and go from there.
 
This is probably going to be a really stupid question, but if I SSH into my home pc, do I get GUI access? We're going to be using PERL to do some GUI things (as weird as that may be) so I do need that. The other thing is, are there any portable versions of a VPN/SSH client? I will be looking to access the VM from a computer that is not mine (it's a workstation in our computer lab).

Another thought I had was, is there anyway to set up my router so that it only forwards the ports if they come in from a specific IP range? I'm running DD-WRT on my Linksys E2000. If there is, could I just have it only forward the ports if the traffic is coming from one of the IP's in that specific lab?

Thanks again for all your help guys
 
feverlax said:
This is probably going to be a really stupid question, but if I SSH into my home pc, do I get GUI access? We're going to be using PERL to do some GUI things (as weird as that may be) so I do need that. The other thing is, are there any portable versions of a VPN/SSH client? I will be looking to access the VM from a computer that is not mine (it's a workstation in our computer lab).

Another thought I had was, is there anyway to set up my router so that it only forwards the ports if they come in from a specific IP range? I'm running DD-WRT on my Linksys E2000. If there is, could I just have it only forward the ports if the traffic is coming from one of the IP's in that specific lab?

Thanks again for all your help guys
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No, SSH doesn't give you graphical access, though you can easily tunnel VNC through the SSH connection if it's already set up on the server.

In DD-WRT, you would set that up by forwarding the port normally, but then setting up a firewall rule that blocked incoming connections to those ports from all IPs except your allowed ones. If you use a seperate firewall from the DD-WRT one, you would make the changes there instead.
 
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