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There are three client options for Mac OS X.:
The OpenVPN command line client. Most users prefer a graphical client, so thisoption will not be covered.
Tunnelblick, a free option available for download at the Tunnelblick Website.
The commercial Viscosity client. At the time of this writing, it costs $14USD for a single seat. If OpenVPN is used frequently, Viscosity is a muchnicer client and well worth the cost.
Both Tunnelblick and Viscosity are easily installed, with no configurationoptions during installation.
Configuring Viscosity¶
When using the Viscosity client, it can be configured manually or the OpenVPNClient Export package may be used to import the configuration. Viscosityprovides a GUI configuration tool that can be used to generate the underlyingOpenVPN client configuration. The CA and certificates can be imported manually,and all of the parameters can be set by hand. This section cover importing aViscosity bundle from the export package.
Download a copy of the Viscosity bundle for the client from the OpenVPNClient Export package
Locate the saved file, which will end in
.visc.zipindicating that it is acompressed archiveCopy this exported bundle to a folder on the Mac
Double click this file and it will expand to
Viscosity.viscDouble click
Viscosity.viscand Viscosity will open and import theconnection as shown in Figure Viscosity Import
Delete the
Viscosity.viscdirectory and the.ziparchiveViscosity will be running after import, and may be found in the menu bar
Click the lock icon added to the menu bar at the top of the screen
Click Preferences to check that the configuration was imported as shown inFigure Viscosity Preferences
Viscosity Preferences¶
Check the Connections area to see if the connection imported successfullyas shown in Figure Viscosity View Connections.
Close the Preferences screen
Click the lock in the menu bar
Click the name of the VPN connection to connect as shown in FigureViscosity Connect. After a few seconds, the lock in the menu barwill turn green to show it connected successfully.
Viscosity Connect¶
Click on it and then click Details as shown in FigureViscosity Menu to see connection information
On the first screen (Figure Viscosity Details), the connectionstatus, connected time, the IP assigned to the client, and the IP of the serverare all displayed. A bandwidth graph is displayed at the bottom of the screen,showing the throughput in and out of the OpenVPN interface.
Viscosity Details¶
Clicking the up/down arrow button in the middle of the details screen displaysadditional network traffic statistics. This shows the traffic sent within thetunnel (TUN/TAP In and Out), as well as the total TCP or UDP traffic sentincluding the overhead of the tunnel and encryption. For connections usingprimarily small packets the overhead is considerable with all VPN solutions. Thestats shown in Figure Viscosity Details: Traffic Statistics are from only afew pings traversing the connection. The traffic sent in bringing up theconnection is also counted here, so the initial overhead is higher than what itwill be after being connected for some time. Also, the typical VPN traffic willhave larger packet sizes than 64 byte pings, making the total overhead anddifference between these two numbers considerably less.
Clicking on the third icon in the middle of the Details screen shows theOpenVPN log file (Figure Viscosity Details: Logs). If there is any troubleconnecting, review the logs here to help determine the problem. See alsoTroubleshooting OpenVPN.
Viscosity Details: Logs¶
If you are using a Linux-based pc or Mac OS X and want to manage a vSphere-environment then you might ask yourself the question if there is a native OS-version of the vSphere Client available for your platform.
The short answer is: no.
The longer answer is: do you need one? And is there an alternative? For most day to day operations you should move to the vSphere Web Client. And you can access that from your Linux system and Mac OS X. The only problem with that is that it only works with vCenter. So what do you do when your vCenter server is down or what to do if you only have one ESXi server?
There are a few tools that you can use to make administration for your environment simpler. But you would always need the vSphere Client on Windows at least once after installation of ESXi to for example import the vCenter Virtual Appliance (explained here) Or to create a virtual machine.
It is also possible to import the appliance from the command line with VMware's OVF Tool, which is available for Linux and Windows. How to do this is explained in this article.
Run a Windows VM in Player, Workstation or Fusion
To work with the full vSphere Client on Windows you can run it in a Windows virtual machine or from a physical Windows computer to configure the ESXi-host and create virtual machines. I personally run openSUSE and work with Linux for the largest part of the day. But from time to time there are Windows-based applications for which there really is no alternative and for those cases I have a Windows VM on my laptop.
Access your VM-console from Linux or Mac OS X with a VMware Player-console
Once your ESXi-host is up and running and you have multiple virtual machines running and maybe also vCenter deployed as a virtual appliance then you can access the console of those virtual machines with VMware Player. This tool is available as a download for Windows and Linux (www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer) and it's included with Mac OS X.
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With VMware Player installed you can run it from the command line and connect to an ESXi-host:
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vmplayer -h
This will open a VMware Player window and requests login to the host. You can provide the host's IP-address with the -h parameter but if you leave it out you can enter it with the user credentials.
Once you are logged in you will see a list of available virtual machine. If the VM is not powered on and you open a console to the VM it will be powered on. If it's already running you can connect directly to the virtual machine. In the image below you see a VM running Windows. It also has the vSphere Client to allow you to manage the ESXi-host.
Host management with SSH and vCLI
You can also perform some management tasks from an SSH-connection to your host. You must enable your SSH-server on the ESXi-server before you can do this. You can enable this from the vSphere Client or from the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) on the server's console. Once you have access with SSH and you want to use the DCUI for configuration purposes you can type this command:
dcui
And it will open the menu-based console in your SSH-session. To close it press ctrl-c.
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Another possibility to work with your ESXi-host from the command line is to use the vSphere Command Line interface (vCLI). This can be installed as an application on your Linux-system but also on a Windows-system. Information and the download can be found here:
www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli