How-to tunnel the VMware Intrastructure Web Access control panel
If you have some sort of *nix (Linux, OSX, cygwin), then simply run the following in a shell:
ssh -L 8222:localhost:8222 -L 902:localhost:902 -L 8333:localhost:8333 your.vmserver.com
replacing your.vmserver.com with your ACTUAL VMware server.
Then point your browser at http://localhost:8222 (This is the unencrypted URL – which isn’t a problem, because you are tunneling over SSH)
Note, that this trick really only works if you have an SSH server running on your VMware host.