Many have asked for it, today the first iteration of the vSphere HTML5 Web Client has been delivered through the VMware Flings website. After the huge success of the ESXi Embedded Host Client (one of my fav flings) it was decided to take the same route for the HTML5 client. The amount of feedback on the ESXi Embedded Host Client fling was overwhelming and it allowed the engineers to incorporate feedback in a very agile while, respond to customers / users requirements literally within days sometimes. Of course the Web Client is a much larger undertaking, but the goal is very much similar. Having said that, it is not fully baked yet, VMware focused on the key workflows first and will expand over time.
Here are list of the most important features/workflows available:
- VM power operations (common cases)p>
- VM Edit Settings (simple CPU, Memory, Disk changes)
- VM Console
- VM and Host Summary pages
- VM Migration (only to a Host)
- Clone to Template/VM
- Create VM on a Host (limited)
- Additional monitoring views: Performance charts, Tasks, Events
- Global Views: Recent tasks, Alarms (view only)
- Feedback Tool (New feature to collect feedbacks from you)
- And more.
So if you are interested in testing the latest and willing to provide feedback, start your engines! Note that the product management and engineering team will be closely monitoring twitter, VMTN communities and the feedback loop that is build in to the client itself. Here is how and where you can leave feedback:
- Fling Comment Section: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client
- VMTN community: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vcenter
- On twitter through #h5client
- Or in the UI by clicking that smiley at the top right
- If you would like to receive email updates and surveys from us regarding this fling, sign up here: http://goo.gl/forms/IqGJ5twYHf.
I have tried it long before it was even close to ready, and can honestly say that I very much enjoyed how quick it was… it feels to snappy and fresh, yet gets the job done without any nonsense. Great work guys…
The community have been asking for this client without Flash since 4 years. I highly doubt feedback from the host fling initiated a vCenter HTML5 web client. Especially not in that short time frame between release of the host fling and vCenter fling. Strategy.
of course they didn’t create the html5 client because of the response on the host client, they created this as a fling as that worked well with the host client. easy way to get something out to customers in a more agile way
Cool – I was pretty sure the host fling would lead to this. Awesome and long awaited news – this is gonna speed up management tasks so well and finally kill the dependency on Flash. Took a while but very happy we are getting there. Even cooler would be federated cluster wide vCenter deployment to eliminate vCenter machine being the SPOF. But I am sure something like that is in the making. Good stuff.
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looks like they are doing maintenance
yeah – I got that a few weeks ago, seems to be running smooth now!
Got this running in our Lab today, WOW! I really hope VMware decides to replace the current web client with this soon. So much quicker than the traditional web client.
Very Cool, Put this into our Lab last week and its very quick, As Ryan said i also hope the replace the current web client 🙂
Yes,
you are not alone with this hope 🙂