If you do not wish to use the clone ticket, you can also just provide the following URI which will prompt for your ESXi you have generated the VMRC URI, you MUST launch it through a web browser as that is how it is passed directly to the Standalone VMRC application. In the case of a standalone ESXi host, you would just change the HOST property. The HOST will either be the Hostname/IP Address of vCenter Server and the PORT should be default to 443 and you will need to specify the VM MoRef ID. To use the VMRC without the vSphere Web Client, you will need to construct the VMRC URI which looks like the TICKET is obtained by calling the AcquireCloneTicket() method using the SessionManager in vCenter Server. The other great thing about the Standalone VMRC is that it can function without vCenter Server and the vSphere Web Client and you can actually use it to connect to VM directly on an ESXi host.

However, to launch it within the vSphere Web Client, you will need vSphere 5.5 Update 2b or greater.

Note:There is not a specific version of vSphere that is required to directly launch the Standalone VMRC. All basic functionalities of the Standalone VMRC is available as you would expect such as power operations, device management, etc. When using the Standalone VMRC method, instead of opening the VM console in the browser, it will launch the native VMRC application on your system whether that be Windows or Mac OS X. Using the new Standalone VMRC by clicking on the 'Launch Remote Console' link.Using HTML5 VMRC simply by clicking on the thumbnail preview.There are currently two methods of launching a remote console to a Virtual Machine using the vSphere Web Client as seen in the screenshot below: The release notes will be updated to reflect this requirement There was of course a huge request for Mac OS X support and the VMRC team has been working hard and today I am please to announce that standalone VMRC is now available for Apple Mac OS X which you can download using the following URL: Note: Mac OS X 10.8 or greater is required to use the new Standalone VMRC. Last year, a standalone Virtual Machine Remote Console (VMRC) was released for Windows as part of vSphere 5.5 Update 2b which provides an alternative way of launching the VM console due to NPAPI deprecation.

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