Lead, Follow, or Move » VMware Infrastructure Client http://www.leadfollowmove.com Adam Bell on Deployment, Automation, PowerShell et al Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:34:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 VMware VIC 2.5 and Server 2.0 Beta 1 http://www.leadfollowmove.com/archives/virtualisation/vic-25-and-server-20-beta-1 http://www.leadfollowmove.com/archives/virtualisation/vic-25-and-server-20-beta-1#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:11:19 +0000 Adam Bell http://www.leadfollowmove.com/archives/virtualisation/vic-25-and-server-20-beta-1 I’ve been using Server 2.0 B1 for a few weeks now, and it would appear that like everyone else I really don’t like the new VI Web Access.

I just find the interface very slow and hard work to use. As mentionend by Chrissy there is a VMware Infrastructure Client (2.5) that can be used instead of the Web UI.

Now ignoring the rather bizarre way required to acquire the 53mb client – which is included in the linux tarball and err, apparently not in the Windows package, I just can’t seem to get it to work – I am working in a test lab so I’m not using any AV, and I have the firewalls disabled on both of my Windows 2003 servers.

I’m able to connect via the Web UI, and all the other connectivity tests work fine:
- I can ping both servers from each other
- I can telnet from Server1 to the Host on port 8333

However, I always get the error message: “..could not establish the initial connection with server Server2. Details: The server took too long to respond”.

If anyone has any constructive ideas please feel free (really) to post a comment, or on my thread over on VMTN. ;)

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