Patent ID: 11900138
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of enabling remote access to a console of a virtual machine (VM) running in a host and managed by a VM management server, from a remote computing device, the method comprising:
in response to a request to access the console of the VM from the remote computing device, issuing a request for a first ticket to the host, the first ticket including an identifier of the host in which the VM is running;
upon receiving the first ticket from the host, issuing a request for a second ticket to access a proxy server to the proxy server, wherein the request for the second ticket includes the first ticket; and
upon receiving the second ticket from the proxy server, transmitting a uniform resource locator (URL) identifying the proxy server and the second ticket to the remote computing device,
wherein the remote computing device accesses the console of the VM through the URL and the proxy server, and the proxy server identifies the host of the VM using the first ticket associated with the second ticket.