Xtravirt is about to release another great tool; the vSphere Client RDP Plug-in. Last week Paul Davey has invited me to join the Xtravirt RDP Plug-in beta program. I was feeling very honored with his invitation and started performing some tests on their new RDP extension right away. I works like a charm, the installation is straight forward, after firing up the vSphere client the new RDP Plug–in is available at the vSphere Client plug-in manager.
When you jump to “Home” (I still have to get used to that) you'll find the new RDP plug-in at the Solutions and Applications section. Here you can configure the RDP behaviour like screen size, username, domain and port. When the setup of the global setting is done, it’s time to put the plug-in to test.
Just right click one of your virtual machines and check-out the context menu, you’ll see an extra option appears called Connect over RDP. Just select the new menu option and your RDP connection will initiate.
Update: I’ve just received an updated version from Paul with the following new features:
Password – you can now set a password to be used for all connections, allowing automatic logon.
Security Warning – Security Warnings can be disabled by ticking the relevant tick box.
Update: vSphere Client RDP Plug-in is released - http://xtravirt.com/vsphere-client-rdp-plug-in
I’ve created a little Jing movie which shows the new version of the Plug-in in action.
