How to change option to Launch Console via VMRC or In-Browser

[vikkd12]

I have a VCSA/vsphere 6.5 deployment and am using firefox. When I launch firefox on a windows host and connect to the vcenter server url flash based web client as the default user administrator@<domain.local> the console always launches within the browser i.e it does not launch using the Vmware Remote Console utility. However, when I login as root to the vcenter it somehow always launches the console using the Vmware Remote Console Utility.

Q1. Is there a way to change the above behavior within windows or within firefox?

Q2. On a similar note when I launch firefox on a Mac and connect to the vcenter url flash based web client it always uses the VMRC utility. Is there anyway to change this on a Mac as well?

Separately, it seems that the console options are different when you connect to vcenter or to the host directly in the HTML based utility.

When you connect to the ESXi host directly and choose the html5 based option and then try to launch a VM console the options are

a) Open browser console

b) Open console in new window

c) Open console in new tab

d) Launch remote console

e) Download VMRC

These same options are not there when you connect to vcenter url and choose the html 5 client.

Q3. What is the reason for this difference?

Thanks

[dhbennett]

I have the same issue.  When I login to the flash version, it opens as the web console.  However, when I login to the HTML version, it opens in the VMRC.

[laboo]

Same issue here.

And HTML5 is only "parially functioning"

It is annoying that something works with flash and other things work with HTML5.

Can we get the fat client back, thanks.

Regards, Lars.

[Lokesh Hulibele Kempegowda]

Try the solution mentioned in the thread How to change default for the "Open Console" in 6.5 webclient?  Hope it helps.

Regards

Lokesh

[laboo]

Sometimes solutions can be quite simple....

(-;

Thanks!

Regards, Lars.