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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Tools: PuTTY and WinSCP

Here's a couple FREE tools that are very handy when working with VMware ESX. I've always known about PuTTY, but WinSCP is new to me. Call me a caveman, that's fine. Anyway, they're very handy tools:
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms,
along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client for Windows. Its main function is the
secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP
offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and
supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

PuTTY can be found here.
WinSCP can be found here.

For those with deeper pockets, you may like SecureCRT from http://www.vandyke.com

Posted By: Jim on Wednesday, January 04, 2006
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3 Comments:

  • Don't forget VNC

    vnc is cross-platform. It's like having an X server on your desktop, but much lighter weight and it allows some neat tricks.

    Many Linux distros already come with vnc installed. I like realvnc (Fedora and others) because it has a Java client, which is automatically available when you start a session.

    VNC has some security questions, so I would be careful on systems exposed to the net, but for VPN use it's slick.

    Beyond being lightweight, a VNC session is really an X server running on the HOST with a viewing window on the CLIENT. So you can disconnect and reconnect at will (even from different machines, say over a vpn).

    By Burton Strauss, at January 04, 2006 11:38 AM  

  • True, but probably not for managing the ESX server as it does not run X. Too heavy for the service console.

    By Jim, at January 04, 2006 11:51 AM  

  • If you are managing ESX from Mac OS X, you can use the built-in OpenSSH port (straight from the Mac OS X Terminal). SCP and SFTP support can be gained from a number of open source projects, including Cyberduck and Fugu (just to name a couple).

    By scottlowe, at January 24, 2006 7:41 PM  

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