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  • 1.  How to get RDP and SSH back in vRA 8

    Posted Jan 14, 2021 02:00 PM

    During migration to vRA 8.2p1 (or earlier in the migration assessment) several "built in Resource Actions" are marked as "Not Ready".

    Two of them are pretty important to us:
    - Connect using RDP
    - Connect using SSH
    (I will keep "Change Owner" for later)

    Has anyone managed to create those Day-2 resource actions in vRA8?



  • 2.  RE: How to get RDP and SSH back in vRA 8

    Posted Mar 04, 2021 03:32 AM

    Hi there!

    Did you manage to get this working somehow?



  • 3.  RE: How to get RDP and SSH back in vRA 8

    Posted Mar 05, 2021 08:04 AM

       yes and no, I have read that this functionability is added in vRA 8.3.
    It already existed in vRA Cloud and is now available in vRA 8.3 "onp-remise"

    (called Connect to remote console)

    However, I've had no change to test it yet.



  • 4.  RE: How to get RDP and SSH back in vRA 8

    Posted Mar 05, 2021 10:19 AM

    I attached a screen shot of what "Connect to remote console" looks like in vRA 8.3.  It opens a console to the VM in the web browser the same as in vCenter. It doesn't use a SSH or RDP client.



  • 5.  RE: How to get RDP and SSH back in vRA 8

    Posted Mar 07, 2021 03:23 AM

    Thanks for your replies!

    That unfortuntely is not a very effective Day-2 operation as it needs additional vCenter privileges for the vRA requestor in order to perfporm a VM remote console, and is for sure not a good replacement for a terminal session to a linux machine, as well as not permitting any copy/paste functionality.

    Does anyone know if it is on the VMware roadmap to re-introduce the functionality to launch local remote clients?

     



  • 6.  RE: How to get RDP and SSH back in vRA 8

    Posted Mar 08, 2021 08:21 AM

    Lack of RDP and SSH is a blocker for our vRA7->vRA8 migration.

    Those options are widely used in our environment and cannot be replaced by vcenter access.