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Connect to a VPS with PuTTy via Password After opening PuTTY, you should see a screen that looks something like this: In the field labeled Host Name (or IP address), enter the IP address or hostname of your PuTTy compatible VPS, like so: Verify that PuTTy SSH has been chosen.

If you need to connect to your VPS using an SSH key pair, you will need to follow the following steps: When connecting to your Linux-based VPS from a Windows system, the most common way of doing that is via SSH, using PuTTY. PuTTY is a free utility which will allow command-line access to your server.

Also in older versions of Putty it would not default to SSH so make sure you select SSH as your protocol because the other options the connection would be refused – If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points by marking the answer correct or helpful 04-21-2009 08:28 PM 04-22-2009 06:08 AM

It is no longer using RHEL so there is no SSH connection capability so Putty will not work. VMware has replaced the Service Console with Remote CLI – which gives you the functinality of the Service Console. If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points by marking the answer correct or helpful