dave Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Has anyone figured out a way to manage their ESXi setup from a Chromebook? It looks like the vSphere Web Client is really slick, but unfortunately not included with the free version. I've tried a couple Android apps without any luck as well. Thanks, Dave Quote Link to comment
SmallwoodDR82 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 the vSphere web client works very well but you are correct it's a no go with free version. Here are some other options (not great but options none the less) - Use Chrome RDP to remote to another windows box on your LAN - Use Chrome RDP to remote to a small windows guest on your ESXi - Install VirtualBox and create a Windows VM (believe you need to install linux first) I hope this helps! Good luck! Quote Link to comment
dave Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 the vSphere web client works very well but you are correct it's a no go with free version. Here are some other options (not great but options none the less) - Use Chrome RDP to remote to another windows box on your LAN - Use Chrome RDP to remote to a small windows guest on your ESXi - Install VirtualBox and create a Windows VM (believe you need to install linux first) I hope this helps! Good luck! I actually ended up utilizing both the second and third option. I patched my 5.0 ESXi installation to fix the VM autostart issue and have Chrome RDP running on a Win7 VM. Also, after reading about crouton for Chromebooks, I installed Ubuntu 14.04. Within Ubuntu I was able to (not very easily) install VirtualBox. I now have a Windows XP virtual machine that I can boot to manage my vSphere Center. It ended up being a really round-a-bout way to do it, but it's been working great! Quote Link to comment
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