If you use VMware Server 2.x, you probably love the web based management console about as much as I do. In other words, not very much.
I like the product well enough (and the price!) that I’ve just been dealing with it up to this point. I mean seriously, it’s not like you have to spend a lot of time managing the server once it’s up and going, right?
Today I was very happy to learn that we do have an alternative to that web management interface. Turns out the VMware Infrastructure Client installer is dropped onto your server when you first install. Just point a browser to:
https://yourserver:8333/client/VMware-viclient.exe
and fetch the client to install. Or, while on the VMware Server machine, find your VMware install directory and get the installer that way:
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\docroot\client\VMware-viclient.exe
Remember to include the port number when connecting to your server!
Give it a shot — I bet you’ll love it.
[Big huge happy hat tip to Concentrated Technology for this one!]
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March 4th, 2009 
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We’ve recently deployed Hyper-V technology into our organization and love it. There appear to be more and more tools that allow Hyper-V and VMWare play together nicely. On the Hyper-V side, I don’t believe there is aweb based interface, the management seems to happen over RDP.
It’s saved us huge development costs though and we’re pretty excited about Amazon EC2 service, but the price point still isn’t quite right for us. If this gets a little cheaper, there will be no good reason to have a VM server onsite, especially if it’s easy enough to pull down VM images in the future.
Michael
Affirma Consulting – SharePoint Consultants
Thank you so much!!! now I can manage the vm server 2.0 through vi client. awesome!
Hi
I have VMware-server-2.0.2-203138 and there is no VMware-viclient.exe in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\docroot\client. All there is in the directory is clients.xml
I am running vmware server on windows 7