vCenter Keyboard Shortcuts
Even though vCenter does a pretty good job of telling us what the keyboard shortcuts are, most of us don’t pay attention until someone tells us directly….I know I didn’t. So here is me telling you directly 🙂
Also I can’t quite get the formatting to look right…so I apologize if everything isn’t exactly in line.
Inventory Views
- Search Ctrl+Shift+F
- Hosts and Clusters Ctrl+Shift+H
- VMs and Templates Ctrl+Shift+V
- Datastores Ctrl+Shift+D
- Networking Ctrl+Shift+N
Administration
- Roles Ctrl+Shift+R
- Sessions Ctrl+Shift+S
- Licensing Ctrl+Shift+L
- System Logs Ctrl+Shift+O
- Server Settings Ctrl+Shift+I
Management
- Scheduled Tasks Ctrl+Shift+T
- Events Ctrl+Shift+E
- Maps Ctrl+Shift+M
- Host Profiles Ctrl+Shift+P
- Customization Specifications Manager Ctrl+Shift+U
Actions on Highlighted Objects(Not all actions are available for all objects)
- New Folder Ctrl+F
- New Cluster Ctrl+L
- Add Host Ctrl+H
- New VM Ctrl+N
- New vNetwork Distributed Switch Ctrl+K
- New Resource Pool Ctrl+O
- New vApp Ctrl+A
- Add Permission Ctrl+P
- Open in New Window Ctrl+Alt+N
- Add Alarm Ctrl+M
- Add Scheduled Task Ctrl+S
Actions on VMs
- Power On Ctrl+B
- Power Off Ctrl+E
- Suspend Ctrl+Z
- Reset Ctrl+T
- Shut Down Guest Ctrl+D
- Restart Guest Ctrl+R
- Enter Full Screen Ctrl+Alt+Enter
Navigating vCenter
- Back Alt+Left
- Forward Alt+Right
- Home Alt+Home
- Cycle Tab Forward Ctrl+Tab
- Cycle Tab Backward Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Did I miss any? Is this useful? Leave me a Comment!
4 Comments
Zach Splaingard · February 23, 2011 at 10:03 am
Don’t kid yourself about this not being useful, it’s a great reference!
C-Rad · February 23, 2011 at 11:26 am
Hooray!
David · January 3, 2012 at 7:25 pm
does anyone know if or what the vcenter delete vm keyboard shortcut might be? The “Delete” key appears to be a shortcut key for “Remove from Inventory”
C-Rad · January 3, 2012 at 7:56 pm
It’s very possible that is intended to prevent terrible “Oops” moments. However if you wanted to delete several at a time you could easily do it in powershell…
get-vm -location sandbox|remove-vm -delete -whatif
That line will get you all the VMs listed in the folder Sandbox and then Delete them. The -whatif is sort of like a practice, it just states What it would do IF it ran the command. Remove -whatif from the end when you want to actually delete them for reals 🙂
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Edit: I should note though, not being careful with that command and just deleting VMs from disk in general is a bit scary and should be handled with the utmost care. Also please always double the VM/s you are deleting before doing so…….K that is my disclaimer 🙂