Open Remote VMWare Console in powershell

openhtml5console.ps1

# Based on http://sourceforge.net/p/vghetto/code/HEAD/tree/scripts/generateHTML5VMConsole.pl#l54
# Requires Openssl - get it from http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

$openssl = "C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\openssl.exe"

$vm = get-vm -name "canary"

# Get the session associated with the vcenter this VM is on. Ugly Hack. 
# /[email protected]:443/VirtualMachine=VirtualMachine-vm-804/
$uid = $vm.uid
($junk, $fqdn) = $uid.split('@')
($fqdn, $junk) = $fqdn.split(':')
$session = get-view sessionmanager -server $fqdn
$ticket = $session.AcquireCloneTicket()
$mo_ref = (Get-view -VIObject $vm).MoRef

# now we have to get the thumbprint of the webserver. Easy? no. Sigh. 

#---

$url = "http://" + $server + ":7331/console/" +
       "?vmId=" + $dict['vmid'] +
       "&vmName=" + $dict['vmName'] +
       "&host=" + $destvc +
       "&sessionTicket=" + $dict['ticket'] +
       "&thumbprint=" + $dict['thumbprint']

$url