For more information about the VMware Management Interface, go to www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/.
You can download a VMware Virtual Machine Console package from the Login page or Status Monitor page. Packages are available for Linux and Windows clients; download the package appropriate to the client machine on which the console is to be installed.
Downloading the console and installing it allows you to quickly launch the console from the management interface and manage virtual machines.
Downloading the installer from the Status Monitor page allows you to quickly download the console you need without logging out of the management interface.
To download and install a console package from the Login or Status Monitor page, complete the following steps.
On the Login page, select the installer appropriate to the operating system of the computer where you are installing the console, then click Download.
If you are installing the console on a Linux host, you can further choose between tar and RPM installation packages.
You can customize the download menu on the Login page to suit your users' needs. For example, if your site uses the VMware Scripting APIs, you can add the API installers to the download menu. Client packages containing the VMware Virtual Machine Console and the VMware Scripting APIs are available on your GSX Server CD-ROM or in the packages you downloaded from the VMware Web site. The client packages are called:
You can expand these archives and place the API installer files in a readily available area, then modify the download menu on the Login page to point to them.
You can add more files to the download menu, hide items already listed and even hide the link or the menu itself. Click Help on the Login page and follow the instructions there.