VMWare vSphere 6.0 web client via SSH tunnel
Hi, I just found a way to connect to a remote vCenter server via SSH tunnel, using the web client. This has been tested on vSphere 6.0, it may need some modifications to work on other version. Let's define some information for this example: 192.168.x.x will be the IP address of the vSphere web client (vCenter) x.x.x.x will be the IP address of the SSH server localuser is the name of the user on the local machine (from which you execute the SSH command) remoteuser is the name of the username on the (remote) SSH server 5252 is the port on which the (remote) SSH server is listening The first thing to do is to execute this shell command to open an SSH connection and create tunnels: sudo ssh -i /home/localuser/.ssh/id_rsa -l remoteuser1 -L 443:192.168.x.x:443 -L 902:192.168.x.x:902 -L 903:192.168.x.x:903 -L 9443:192.168.x.x:9443 -p 5252 x.x.x.x Please not that we must use sudo because we're using ports =< 1024. Also note the -i , specifying the path to my pr...