Not able to access the console of VM over the internet

Not able to access the console of VM over the internet - vCloud Director

What to do if you are not able to access the virtual machine console from the vCloud Director based portal

My first thought is, is it because of SSL certificates?? was it ?? No... It wasn't.

I tried inspecting from the browser to understand the flow but found everything normal.

Later found out that its a common issue with v10.2 and can be fixed by running below command on all the cells.

/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/cell-management-tool manage-config -n consoleproxy.cores.max -v "0"

service vmware-vcd restart

The workaround applied will set the console connections counter to unlimited.

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