Working with VMware Workstation 8 Remote Connections

  4:09 PM    Santosh

One of the key VMware Workstation 8 feature is to provides a seamless way to establish remote connections to hosts running in Workstation, VMware vSphere, and VMware vCenter. With VMware Workstation 8 Remote Connection feature you can do lots of things such Power ON/Off,Suspend,Reset Virtual Machines, Clone VM's, Mount CD/DVD/ISO's to VM's, Snapshot VM,s, Add/Remove/Increase Disks,Memory,NIC,s. That means you can do most of the daily VMware Administrative tasks via VMware Workstation 8 Remote Connections,
Check Step By Step Installation Guide To Configure VMware Workstation 8 on Windows 7
Check below screen shots for more details!!!
Navigate to File-Connect to Server,
 Enter your ESXi Host/vCenter IP address & Login credentials & Connect.
 Tick "Always trust this host with this certificate" option & Click on "Connect Anyway"
 You can Manage most of daily Vmware admin tasks via Vmware workstation 8,
 You can restart, Shutdown,Suspend VM's
This is very good features for small environment, No need to invest for vCenter Server. Now you clone VM's via VMware Workstation 8.
 You can mount DVD/ISO's to remote VM,s
So guys' enjoy this new feature of VMware workstation 8.