That is because vS phere 6 was the last release with the thick client. As we briefly talked about earlier, the major difference between the vSphere Web Client and the vSphere Client are the technologies underneath them. As vSphere continued to progress, more and more features became included in the vSphere Client. For vSphere 6. Thats why as of vSphere 6. Just as the C client for Windows was phased out over time, the vSphere Web Client is being phased out as well.
As you can see, when you log into vCenter you still have the option to select the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client. I encourage everyone to try and use the vSphere Client at this point. First of all, did I mention you can use it from any device, anywhere you are? This is a huge step forward in manageability of vSphere.
Since we know the vSphere Web Client is deprecated, it is important to start using the vSphere Client, and begin the process of updating any documentation in our environment that may have screen shots of older clients. Recently there was a big problem due to a dependency of Adobe Flash player.
What happens is that the Flash player update which triggered within many infrastructures has completely crippled the access to a vCenter server by continuously crashing. Whether you reload the page, it crashed again. It will certainly be interesting to see, whether VMware plans to introduce some kind of redundancy to vCenter server management, through HTML 5 based host client. It would certainly help in situations such as vCenter server unavailability or vSphere client unavailability.
The vSphere 6. We're at the end of and it does not seem that we will have vSphere NEXT anytime soon even if we could manifest some interest by participating on vSphere Beta recently. If you're interested in vSphere Beta release read that post and go to the registration page.
Connect on: Facebook. Feel free to network via Twitter vladan. You can download it here. Download NOW. VMware Workstation and other IT tutorials. Instead, you must use the vSphere web client. The following instructions apply equally to the vSphere web-based clients below with the exception of the URL you must access.
Since the web client requires no installation, you can hop straight to connect to your ESXi host, cluster, or vCenter server. To do so:. You should now know how to manage any vSphere environment or individual ESXi host using a vSphere client.
Why not write on a platform with an existing audience and share your knowledge with the world? Adam the Automator. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn. I am unable to find where the download link to the vSphere client is. I found someone's blog who had the same problem. He points to hardcoded links to VMware's clients: And another blog. In addition to the desktop client there is also a vSphere web client available at least since 5.
Beware that in the future past version 6. At least according to this blog post from Dennis Lu who's the product manager for the vSphere web client. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Where can I find the VMware vSphere client?
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