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Consider the need to remotely manage an instance of VMWare Server 1.0.x. on a Windows network.

Client: Windows 7 with same VMWare Server version. In this case, it's 1.0.8.

Server: Windows 2008.

VMWare Server Console

We've attempted to connect using the server's hostname, and its IP address. Both get the same results:

Cannot connect to host A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Questions:

  • what firewall rules need to be in place on the server to allow authentication to occur?
  • any other considerations to managing VMWare Server remotely?
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p.campbell
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There are some known issues with running the VMware client on Windows 7, but I assume you've already dealt with that - correct?

I'm not very familiar with that old of a version of VMWare, but are you attempting to connect directly to the ESX host or Virtual Center (did they even call it that back then?).

According to this document: http://www.vmware.com/support/vc11/doc/c3firewall.html

You just need ports 902 and 905 open.

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