Clearing the VI Client recent connections dialog
If you end up using VMware’s VI Client to connect to multiple vCenter servers or ESX/ESXi hosts, you might find yourself a little annoyed at how many saved connections show up when you go to launch a new connection. This becomes ever more annoying when you’re connecting to multiple servers named somewhat the same as the client will start auto-completing your selections. This has reached it’s pain point this week as we transition to similarly-named vCenter servers and I keep fat-fingering what I’m typing.
If you want to clear that saved connections dialog, it’s a simple registry edit in XP. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareVMwareVMWare Infrastructure ClientPreferencesRecentConnections
and simply delete the connections you don’t want (DO NOT delete the entire key, just the connections in that reg key). Enjoy your clutter-free VI Client…
Categorised as: Virtualization