Access to the consoles to the virtual machines

Good Morning-

In our Organization, our service delivery team creates servers and then given "owners of applications.  An obstacle we just met in the deployment of VI3.5 being a service company providing access console on a Windows Server to the owners of the app.  They were accustomed to the presence of a DRAC\HP ILO address which they could benefit when a server has startup problems, etc., which required interfacing with the console.

Within the world of VMware, is it possible to provide access to an owner of the application server console without providing the VI client?

Thank you very much.

Steve

To generate the URL you will need to log into the VC via the web client.  Use http://nameofyourvirtualcenter

You may need to double-click the virtual machine when you connect, according to.  At this point, it should display the VM statistics and "generates a URL for the remote console" in the right pane.

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