Beside accessing the console from vSphere Client, we can use SSH to remote access a Stratusphere appliance's console. You need a SSH client first. On Windows, the most popular (and free) SSH client is PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html). If you are using a Mac or a Linux machine, it already has SSH client built-in, which you can run from Terminal/Console.
To start, run the SSH client and it will ask you to put in the machine name or IPl.
Once you connect, it may prompt you for a security alert asking you about the host key:
Click "Yes" and continue. The login credential you need to use here is 'friend/sspassword'. We disable privileged account (i.e. root) to have direct SSH access for security reasons, so you will need to login as 'friend' then run 'su -' to switch to root. You need the hyphen in 'su -' because want to root's user environment. Many commands do not work right if you miss the hyphen in 'su -'. The default password for root is also 'sspassword'. After putting the password, it will return you with the command prompt with root access.
If you run from a Mac or a Linux machine, you can bring up Terminal or Console, and run the command 'ssh friend@<host-fqdn-or-ip>'. Follow the same instruction above to switch to root.