One of the benefits of working for VMware technical marketing, is that you have your own lab.
Luckily my lab is hosted by an external datacenter, which helps me avoid a costly power-bill at home each month 🙂 However, that means I need to connect to my lab remotely.
As a MAC user I used Remote Desktop Connection for MAC from Microsoft. One of the limiting factors of this RDP for MAC is the limited resolution of 1400 x 1050 px. The screens at home have a minimum resolution 2560 x 1440 px. This first world problem bugged me until today!
Today I found CoRD – http://cord.sourceforge.net/. CoRD allows me to connect to my servers with a resolution 2500 x 1600, using the full potential of my displays at home.
Another create option is the hotkey function, using a key combination I spin up a remote desktop connection. I love these kinds of shortcuts that help me reduce time spend navigating throughout the UI.
If you are using a MAC and often RDP into your lab, I highly recommend to download CoRD.
Btw, it’s free 😉

Remote Desktop Connection Manager For Mac

I can remote desktop in from a PC but not from CORD on my Mac. So following the advice above i downloaded MICROSOFTS's remote desktop. And as soon as i tried to remote into my Win10 box, a message come up about generating a security certificate for this user. CoRD for Mac users – Free. Get quick connection for Mac by CoRd remote desktop software. It is very simple and easy to access remote desktop client. All you need to do is just type your IP address or host name in the “Quick Connect” bar and press Enter button. It is fairly used by most of the people and found that CoRD is much faster than.