Launching the VMware Virtual Machine Console from the Management Interface on an Encrypted Server

You can launch the VMware Virtual Machine Console from the VMware Management Interface automatically. In order to do this in an Internet Explorer 6.0 browser on a Windows system where SSL is encrypting your GSX Server remote connections, you must ensure that the Do not save encrypted pages to disk option is disabled.

For information on encrypting remote connections, see Enabling and Disabling SSL for Remote Sessions.

When this option is enabled, Internet Explorer does not save any files to disk, including the files it needs to hand off to helper applications. This prevents the console from launching automatically.

Caution: This option may have been enabled deliberately at your site to prevent the saving of sensitive files to disk. Disabling it may permit other sensitive information to be saved to disk.

Caution: Some patches installed when you run Windows Update reset this setting, so you may need to repeat this process after you run Windows Update.

To disable the option, complete the following steps.

1. In the Internet Explorer 6.0 window, open the Internet Options control panel. Choose Tools > Internet Options.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

3. Scroll down to the Security section and uncheck Do not save encrypted pages to disk.

4. Click OK.

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