Enabling the VNC server for Virtual hardware Console 2.Navigate it to firewall and click on the properties link on the right top.
Once the host firewall rules have been conffgured you can configure the virtual machine as previously.Ģ) Edit the configuration file (. Login to Vpshere Client and Click on the ESXi server in which you want to enable the VNC Server.Click on the Configuration tab and navigate it to security profile.
However, in ESXi 5 there is a further step required to configure the firewall to enable the required TCP connection ports, these being in the range 5900 – 5964.įrom the VMware KB, I discovered how to create a custom firewall rule and enable the updated rule ( ).ġ) Backup the ‘/etc/vmware/firewall/service.xml’.Ģ) Modify the above file with a text editor to include the below rule to allow required TCP connection ports.ģ) Refresh the firewall rules so they take effect by run the following command:Ĥ) Confirm your firewall rule is listed and enabled by running the following command: I have previously blogged about this process for previous iterations of ESX ( ). If you want a Thin Client that can connect to both Linux and Windows, theres tons of devices, such as HP and Wyse. You can either for a full blown VDI solution (such as VMware View) or just create the handful of VMs and connect remotely. Well I did say the next post would be on recovery deleted objects using the Active Directory Recycle Bin, but a slight detour as part of my lab setup for 70-640 was the requirement to enable VNC on my ESXi host. 1 Theres really a few different was you can go about doing this.