Saturday, 1 August 2015

Using vCMA (vCenter Mobile Access) to access vCenter server from iPad/Smart Phone.

VMware's vCenter Mobile Access, is a mobile multiplatform solution that everyone was asking for. Now you can manage your VMware infrastructure from your iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile. I have documented below steps to deploy vCMA and little demo screenshot how things are done with an iPAD
Deployments steps:
1. vCMA comes as virtual appliance and ovf file can be downloaded from following URL.
2. Copy the downloaded appliance files in local directory and execute Deploy vCMA appliance in ESX/ESXi host using vSphere client
3. Browse to the ovf path on local drive.
4. Review the information and follow next steps
5. Accept license agreement
6. Give the name of the Appliance.
7. Select Data store for the appliance


8. Follow the steps till the Deployment complete successfully it may take a few mints to complete deployment.



9.  Start the vCMA Virtual Appliance and configure Network settings in VM Console.





Note:-You can change the IP address from web link by accessing vCMA appliance using:-https://<vCMA IP Address>:5480


10. Now access vCenter server using iPad, you need to download the vSphere client app for iPad, access the vSphere client using iPad.




11. In next step provide VCetner Server credentials




12. vCenter Screen on iPad will looks like as below.



   You can see the ESX/ESXi hosts and VM counts

13. You can access individual ESX/ESXi host



14. You can take following VM Actions from iPad






15. You can run  Ping and Trace route tools from iPad





16. You can view the VM and ESX host performance from iPad.





Thanks for reading!!

Irshad Ali Chowdhary


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