Specialist Services
vSphere Client
If you wish to manage/review your virtual server within vSphere, you must now use a web-browser rather than the deprecated desktop client. You can access the Web Client here: https://vsp-live-vc.lboro.ac.uk - we recommend the HTML 5 version being actively developed by VMware. You must login with your ‘username-admin’ account.
When logged in to the client
Locate and press the ‘VMs and Templates’ button on the upper left. After clicking you will see a folder named for your school / department and beneath that the servers you manage.
You can now do the following:
- Check out how your VM is performing with CPU and memory.
- Attach to the server console session.
- Check out recent tasks, events and alarms.
- Shutdown, Restart and pause the VM.
- Snapshot your VM.
To access the console session for your virtual server, click ‘Launch Web Console’.
VMware Snapshots can be taken before making major changes - these are retained for and automatically deleted (merged) after 15 days.
Follow this link for more information about snapshots.