John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

Gong Hei Fat Choi! This year for the Lunar New Year celebrated in China, Korea and Vietnam, we had a Chinese Lion in the office in VMware.

I have a number of different ESX Servers and vCenter Servers to connect to at work. None are set up in DNS because they are just test servers. So every time I want to connect I have to try and remember the IP address. Also some are ESX Servers where the login is root, and others are vCenter where the login is administrator. So I often have to connect to two or three different IPs, trying both logins, until I get the one I want.

Today I decided to create a number of shortcuts to each server. I wanted to be able to click on a vSphere Client link and have it automatically connect to eh correct Server, enter the username and password and log me in. Turns out it’s quite easy as the client can’t take that information as a command line argument. However I found it hard to find anything on the internet explaining the options. Of course running \? on the client gives me nothing.

Anyway here is the options you need to pass to the vSphere Client executable to get it to connect to a server with a certain username or password. Now all you need to do is make a number of shortcuts to each server in a folder and you can quickly launch the one you want. Very handy!

VpxClient.exe -i yes -s 10.21.68.8 -u root -p vmware

Working from home today and it’s nice and cool in my living room. The heat at work hit’s 26.5 oC at my desk. Crazy! It’s a nice 18 oC in my living room now. Comfortable! I may never go back to the office again :)

Looks cold outside though.

I’ve solved the issue of not being able to work in the sun when working from home. Patent Pending.All images copyright, johnoriordan.ie 2010 :-p