Thanks again, Titanomachia.
I agree. The client should not be on the VM but that is the only place I have for it in the office right now. This will change soon.
I had the client working great from home over an ssh tunnel, but now I can't open the virtual machine consoles. I seem to have the issue described iin VMware KB 749640. I am still investigating this.
As well, the VMs 'disappear' from the client leaving just the datastore in the inventory as the host. I can remove this host and recreate it and it is ok for a while. Still investigating this as well.
Thanks,
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David Chapman