It's arguable how much time they really save you, but I used to feel like I was admin'ing faster when using them and as a result my focus on more important tasks intensified When I used to administer VMware environments, in the middle of migrations or large VM requests fulfillments I used to love the shortcuts. These shortcust work on both OS X or Windows clients.

Ctrl+Alt+5: Takes you to Datastores and Datastore Clusters.

Ctrl+Alt+4: Takes you to VMs and Templates.

Ctrl+Alt+3: Takes you to Hosts and Clusters.

Ctrl+Alt+2: Opens Virtual Infrastructure Inventory.

Ctrl+Alt+Home or Ctrl+Alt+1: Back to the Home Screen.

Now that VMware is clearly pushing the Web Client, I thought it would be helpful if I wrote about some of the useful ones.Īpparently VMware must have missed documenting these shortcuts, but thanks to William Lam of VirtuallyGhetto I was able to find them and decided to blog them here - very little comes up otherwise when I do a Web search for these types of shortcuts. I find them to be very handy and time-saving especially, when I am switching from one area to another and multitasking. One of the things I love about the full vSphere Client is the ability to use shortcuts.

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