Once your ESXi-host is up and running and you have multiple virtual machines running and maybe also vCenter deployed as a virtual appliance then you can access the console of those virtual machines with VMware Player. This tool is available as a download for Windows and Linux (www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer) and it's included with Mac OS X.
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Another possibility to work with your ESXi-host from the command line is to use the vSphere Command Line interface (vCLI). This can be installed as an application on your Linux-system but also on a Windows-system. Information and the download can be found here: www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli
The VMware vSphere Client is one of the key ways in which you will interact with your VMware vSphere environment. Like most VMware products, the vSphere Client has evolved over time. We are going to take a look at the evolution of the vSphere client, and what it means for you as a VMware vSphere Administrator.
For a long time, the only vSphere Client available was the C# based, or thick client for Windows. This means you had to download the vSphere Client to administer your environment, and had to be using Windows. As the world around us evolved, this became impractical for a number of reasons.
First up was the vSphere Web Client. This took several releases to reach feature parity with the Windows client, and had one fatal flaw. It was based on Flash. While this was a step in the right direction, requiring flash was still a pretty big limitation.
It also includes the links for updates for these major vSphere releases. Remember, you can also download the vSphere Client directly from the host or vCenter you want to manage for these earlier versions of vSphere.
You will notice there is no client available after vSphere 6. That is because vSphere 6 was the last release with the thick client. As of vSphere 6.5 or later, you will need to use either the vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client.
Of course, the vSphere Client does look different than the vSphere Web Client. 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.
No matter if you are accessing vSphere or ESXi these days, a HTML5 based client is the one being used. This makes huge leaps forward when it comes to the manageability of your VMware environment. From creating a virtual machine to configuring iSCSI, you have everything at your fingertips any time, from and device.
Many people ask if the vSphere client is free. The answer is yes, as long as you are using vCenter of course. There are not any additional charges to access your VMware environment from the vSphere client.
For partners who want to extend the HTML Client, this Fling also includes a new HTML SDK and a tool to generate plug-ins. Please see the HTML Client SDK Fling Overview.pdf and download the html-client-sdk.zip and plugin-seed.zip.
After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Release NotesAfter your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Release NotesAfter your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Release NotesAfter your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /usr/lib/vmware-client-configui/scripts/config.sh configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Known IssuesThe Feedback tool is currently inaccessible when Wizards/Dialogs are up. We will fix this in the next release.If you deploy the OVA from scratch (or rerun the configuration) you may get a message like this: Configuration process completed! Type '/etc/init.d/vsphere-client start' to start the vSphere Client server. /etc/init.d/vsphere-client: line 307: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/scripts/configurator.js: Permission deniedYou can safely ignore this.
It came as a surprise to me that a few of my production vSphere and vCenter environments all started exhibiting issues with the vSphere web client.I tried on every browser, both Windows and Mac, but kept getting this message:
With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has made a significant change for the everyday virtualization administrator by replacing the traditional desktop client (aka C# Client, VI Client) with a new web browser-based client. At first this may sound alarming, but bear with me as I step through some of the features of the new vSphere Web Client and show you some of the advantages it has over the last release of the desktop client. Yes that is correct, with the introduction of the vSphere Web Client, VMware has announced that vSphere 5.1 will be the last release to include the vSphere Desktop Client.
Being Web-based, the vSphere Web Client supports Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome on Windows and Linux. The web client can be used with Mac OSX but the additional plug-in that provides virtual machine console access is not compatible with OSX. The vSphere Web Client is built around Adobe Flex, so the browser will need to have the Adobe Flash plugin installed and this is typically on a desktop or laptop away from the server itself.
When logging in you will notice that there is no server name or IP address field on the login screen to specify which vCenter server you want to connect to, as found in the desktop clients. With vSphere 5.1, we are authenticating with the vCenter Single Sign On server, and on successful login we are presented with the vCenter server solutions and components that we have been granted access to in the vSphere Web Client's home page.
One of the best features of making the desktop client web-based is its upgrade capability. To upgrade the vSphere Web Client, you simply update the vSphere Web Client server binaries with the new package and that's it -- everyone is upgraded with no new client to download and install. IT departments only need to be concerned about updating a single system when using the vSphere Web Client. It is not necessary for them to give new software to every user of the client. This significantly decreases the management costs typically associated with such software deployments.
New: Inventory Lists A new feature of the vSphere Web Client is the Inventory list. Inventory lists are an efficient way of navigating the environment's inventory, and are optimized for cloud-size environments where thousands of objects exist. Inventory lists are dynamic groups, displayed by object type for easier access, but their uniqueness is based on object relationships. If you select a vCenter object it will show you the lists of object types available to that vCenter server so you can get to any level within 1-3 clicks max. This is much faster than dealing with desktop clients.
New: Work In Progress The vSphere Web Client features a cool feature that comes into play if you have started entering information to complete a configuration wizard, but your attention is diverted to another situation. With the desktop client you would have to either cancel out of the wizard and lose all information recorded, or open a second desktop client session. With the vSphere Web Client you have the ability to pause a configuration wizard by selecting the double arrows in the upper right corner and minimizing them for later use.
Step 1 - You will need to download and install the vSphere Client Integration Package (CIP) 6.0 package for Mac OS X by visiting the following URL: -ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.mac64.dmg
Nice post as usual! I tried this procedure and was able to install VCSA 6 under ESXi 5.5U2 running under Fusion 7.1.1. However, the installer hung after 8 minutes for over 40 minutes on the "Starting vSphere Web Client Services" step, and never completed. The vCenter welcome screen comes up, but the vsphere-client just shows an unadorned login page and never responds beyond that.
These issues are being mostly handled by using the vSphere Client, which is a free software released by VMware enabling SA to connect to VM Hypervisor systems and manage them. If you stumbled upon this page, chances are you know how difficult can be to retrieve the download links of the vSphere Client's builds, each one required to connect to the corresponding vSphere release. This list comes to the rescue, including the download links for a wide number of available vSphere Client for Windows in the most likely case you'll need them. 2ff7e9595c
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