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I'm glad this article made it to the front page, it must have been a repost because last time I saw it come up it didn't receive any upvotes or comments. It re
by yebyen 12y ago
I'm glad this article made it to the front page, it must have been a repost because last time I saw it come up it didn't receive any upvotes or comments. It really does suck that bad, for anyone who isn't on it or is at all skeptical.
I haven't found a way to run it on a Linux machine, which kind of negates the usefulness of a web client for me; we have a Windows 7 machine in the back room hooked up to a KVM since our $10,000 servers for running ESXi can't run the client on a Windows 7 virtual host as fast as a roughly five year old desktop computer. No idea why. Maybe performance crosstalk with the vcenter host.
It's true that many seemingly routine tasks take an order of magnitude more time than with the C# client, but when the C# client is no longer developed and apparently doesn't receive new features like "migrate", you're stuck with it.
I think I learned from this post there is actually a way to log into the vCenter server and manage all of your hosts from the C# client, so I'll definitely be trying that out. I always thought that vCenter meant Web Client, and maybe that's not true. But even if that adds some of the missing features I'm going back out to the web client to use today, it's just a miserable program and I felt I had to throw in $0.02 here. I used to admire VMWare, but not anymore since I started using their stuff in a business environment.
- irongeek 12y agoI have manage to get it to run on a Linux machine by installing Google Chrome, because they have Flash embedded in the browser. In my opinion this is a terrible option, but I thought I would share it never the less.
- yebyen 12y agoI thought the same thing (and I can't test it right now, our vcenter host is currently powered down because of thermal issues we're having during an asbestos abatement next door, another story) However on my Windows 7 machines, even with Google Chrome, connecting to the vcenter host's web interface asks to install two additional plugins that are not as far as I can tell Flash related. My boss does a decent job keeping up with the patches for most things, so if maybe you stopped upgrading when they started breaking stuff it's possible we might be running a newer version than you.
- irongeek 12y agoOn my Ubuntu Desktop I am running Google Chrome and just opened vSphere Web Client. My versions are as follows. Ubuntu 14.04, Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153, vSphere Web Client Version 5.5.0 Build 1750595 and Flash Player LNX 14,0,0,125 I included Flash Player because it comes up in my about VMware vSphere page but I can tell you I could not install a newest enough Flash plugin on Linux because Adobe has stopped releasing them, which you probably already know.
- yebyen 12y agoThat was the hangup, I remember now. You can't download a new enough Flash plugin, I found that and gave up, but I guess Chrome works. That's great news. Means I can ditch the Windows VM. Thanks.