RDP to VM directly from vSphere Client?

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 by Michel Roth

My colleague Rob Mallicoat pointed me to this cool tool by the clever folks over at xtravirt. It's a RDP Plugin for the vSphere client, allowing you to right-click and RDP to the VM from there. Cool! Free!

The Xtravirt vSphere RDP Plug-in provides integration of the Windows Remote Desktop tool with the VMware vSphere Client.

Utilising Remote Desktop to connect virtual machines provides a better user experience compared to the built-in VMware console as well as performing better across WAN connections.

System Requirements

VMware vCenter Server version 4 and above
Version 4.0.0 or greater of the VMware vSphere Client
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Version 7.0 or greater of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection client

Download File Contents

vSphere RDP Plug-in installation software
Install and User Guide

Screenshots

Known Issues

Windows 7 and Vista with UAC enabled. In order to correctly run the plug-in, the vSphere client requires to run with the "Run as Administrator" option, or disable UAC.

Source and download: http://xtravirt.com/vsphere-client-rdp-plug-in