Installing VMware vSphere Client on Domain Controller Machine.

Installing VMware vSphere Client on Domain Controller Machine.

You must be thinking what’s new in installing VMware vSphere Client... so the difference is that we are going to install it on Domain Controller, which is by default not possible.

Installation is failed with the error saying: “Requirements the management station has to be running XP SP2 and not a domain controller”

As we know that installing any other application or roles on DC is not recommended. But we may come across with this which when we are working with a very small infrastructure or probably with our Lab.

Will not prefer to install another windows VM just to install vSphere client. In that situation, we will make use of this OS SKIP command to install the vSphere client on Windows Domain controller as a workaround.

Here is the command to use:

VMware-viclient.exe /VSKIP_OS_CHECKS=”1″

That’s it. VSphere client installation will complete without any error. Hold on but we cannot use the same switch to install Web client because Web Client cannot be installed on Domain Controller. 

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