vmrc-direct-links's Introduction

VMRC-Direct-Links

Creates an HTML file with direct VMRC links for VMware VMs located in vCenter. It is meant to provide the ability to console to a VM when vCenter is offline during maintenance.

Tested With

Powershell 4
PowerCLI 6.0
vSphere 5.5, 6.0

Configuration

Create a VICredentialStore with credentials for your vcenter server and credentials for every ESXi server in the cluster.

PowerCLI commands to create the VICredentialStore file.

Passwords are hashed but are reversible. Rights to the file are restricted to the user who creates the file

New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host <vcenter_name> -User <user_name> -Password <password> -File 'c:\Path\To\Credential\File.xml'
New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host <esxi_server_01> -User <user_name> -Password <password> -File 'c:\Path\To\Credential\File.xml'
New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host <esxi_server_02> -User <user_name> -Password <password> -File 'c:\Path\To\Credential\File.xml'
New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host <esxi_server_XX> -User <user_name> -Password <password> -File 'c:\Path\To\Credential\File.xml'

Parameters

PARAMETER
-vcenter
    The target vcenter to connect to
-datacenter
    The target datacenter to work/search within
-cluster
    The cluster in which to deploy the cloned templates
-vmFolder
    [Optional] The folder path to the VMs you want to create VMRC links.  If not defined will provide links for all VMs in the defined Cluster
-credPath
    The path to the VICredentialStore file that contains the necessary credentials to connect to vCenter and each ESXi host directly
-outFile
    The file path to where you want the output stored

#####EXAMPLE

./GenerateLinks.ps1 -vcenter yourvcenterserver.domain.local -datacenter 'Datacenter Name' -cluster 'Cluster String' -vmFolder 'Servers\Windows 2003' -credPath 'c:\temp\mycredentails.xml' -outFile 'c:\temp\vmrclinks.html'

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