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I tried from another desktop at work and it worked. &nbsp;I must have some sort of problem with my desktop PC.....wouldn't be surprised if a reboot fixed or reload of the client, worst case. Thanks for verifying! &nbsp;I'm not crazy!
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I tried from another desktop at work and it worked.  I must have some sort of problem with my desktop PC.....wouldn't be surprised if a reboot fixed or reload of the client, worst case. Thanks for verifying!  I'm not crazy!

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I'm using vSphere Client 5.1 to connect to my ESXi hosts.<br />
I need to automate my login process and from what I've read there are some command line switches for host server, username, password.<br />
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vpxclient.exe -s &lt;hostname&gt; -u &lt;username&gt; -p &lt;password&gt;<br />
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When I run vpxclient with these parameters, they are completely ignored. Vsphere Client launches and none of those 3 fields are populated. I manually have to type the host, my username &amp;&nbsp;password.<br />
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This seems fairly straight-forward so I'm not sure where it's going wrong. There's also an optional &quot;i&quot; parameter for the certificate but I have the same issue with or without it. In this instance I have the cert already anyway.<br />
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Anybody else calling the vSphere client from a command line w/ parameters?
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I'm using vSphere Client 5.1 to connect to my ESXi hosts.
I need to automate my login process and from what I've read there are some command line switches for host server, username, password.

vpxclient.exe -s <hostname> -u <username> -p <password>

When I run vpxclient with these parameters, they are completely ignored. Vsphere Client launches and none of those 3 fields are populated. I manually have to type the host, my username & password.

This seems fairly straight-forward so I'm not sure where it's going wrong. There's also an optional "i" parameter for the certificate but I have the same issue with or without it. In this instance I have the cert already anyway.

Anybody else calling the vSphere client from a command line w/ parameters?

vsphere client command line switches.

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.