I did a bit of googling to see how to setup a vpn server on the ESXi host, and it seems that's not possible. And managing the host through a vpn running on a guest VM sounds unreliable; if you need to use the management console to fix a problem that affects the vpn server guest, you have no access to the management console until the problem is fixed.
So it seems I'll still need a separate physical server to provide the vpn. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <[email protected] > wrote: > > From: John Abreau [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > Is the vSphere Client part of the free edition of ESXi? I thought I had > read > > somewhere that it was only for the commercial edition of ESXi, and that > you > > had to manage the free edition through a web interface. > > They're always changing stuff, but I currently use ESXi 5.1, and vSphere > Client 5.1. > > The client username/password dialog says "In vSphere 5.5, all new vSphere > features are available only through vSphere Web Client. The traditional > vSphere Client will continue to operate, supporting the same feature set as > vSphere 5.0, but not exposing any of the new features in vSphere 5.5." > > I've never used the web client yet - I seem to recall that all the "new > features" were for-cost premium features, and I seem to remember getting > roadblocked with the web client when I tried it once - and I basically > concluded that the "new" way of doing things was the non-free way. > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
