Yep, Mobile Admin gives you mobile phone admin access to most all of the applications running inside all the VMs!

Yep, Mobile Admin gives you mobile phone admin access to most all of the applications running inside all the VMs!

The biggest differences between Mobile Admin and vCMA is that while the VMware solution is focused solely on VMware administration – Mobile Admin gives the ability to administer 40+ other servers in addition to our VMware Virtual Center support as well as being integrated into the Microsoft’s powerful Operations Manager.

Thanks for the cell phone access expertise and experience. It's
definitely more complex than I ever considered- especially since I
would think only a small number of admin users would really need
access to VI management servers. Although, I understand the security
advantages of all user mobile devices actually being internal.

Another option (but I don't know if you can get that everywhere) is to get a dedicated connection for the enterprise mobile phones to connect these phones directly to the corporate network. With GSM phones the telco can set an APN (Access Point Name) for the SIM card and route all the data traffic from the phones from their network onto the dedicated line in stead of to the public internet. When the phones are reconfigured to only use that APN (which can be done with mobile device management software) you have effectively closed the loop and don't need to use a VPN session on the phone to make the connection.

You can still put a firewall or ISA between the connection and the network ofcourse but that's depending on the security design of the network.

Note: I only have experience with an implementation like this with Windows Mobile phones.