The VMware vSphere Management SDK is a bundle that contains a set of VMware vSphere software development kits: vSphere Web Services SDK, vSphere Storage Policy SDK, vSphere Storage Management SDK, vSphere ESX Agent Manager SDK, and SSO Client SDK. The SDKs provide all the documentation, libraries, and code examples needed for developers to. VSphere Mobile Client brings the following capabilities to vSphere administrators on the go: Virtual machine list with overview on resource consumption and VM details. From the VM list the user can enter the VM console or see more detailed information on the VM such as events, performance charts and also execute quick actions.
If you are using a Linux-based pc or Mac OS X and want to manage a vSphere-environment then you might ask yourself the question if there is a native OS-version of the vSphere Client available for your platform.
The short answer is: no.
The longer answer is: do you need one? And is there an alternative? For most day to day operations you should move to the vSphere Web Client. And you can access that from your Linux system and Mac OS X. The only problem with that is that it only works with vCenter. So what do you do when your vCenter server is down or what to do if you only have one ESXi server?
There are a few tools that you can use to make administration for your environment simpler. But you would always need the vSphere Client on Windows at least once after installation of ESXi to for example import the vCenter Virtual Appliance (explained here) Or to create a virtual machine.
It is also possible to import the appliance from the command line with VMware's OVF Tool, which is available for Linux and Windows. How to do this is explained in this article.
Run a Windows VM in Player, Workstation or Fusion
To work with the full vSphere Client on Windows you can run it in a Windows virtual machine or from a physical Windows computer to configure the ESXi-host and create virtual machines. I personally run openSUSE and work with Linux for the largest part of the day. But from time to time there are Windows-based applications for which there really is no alternative and for those cases I have a Windows VM on my laptop.
Access your VM-console from Linux or Mac OS X with a VMware Player-console
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.
With VMware Player installed you can run it from the command line and connect to an ESXi-host:
vmplayer -h
This will open a VMware Player window and requests login to the host. You can provide the host's IP-address with the -h parameter but if you leave it out you can enter it with the user credentials.
Once you are logged in you will see a list of available virtual machine. If the VM is not powered on and you open a console to the VM it will be powered on. If it's already running you can connect directly to the virtual machine. In the image below you see a VM running Windows. It also has the vSphere Client to allow you to manage the ESXi-host.
Host management with SSH and vCLI
You can also perform some management tasks from an SSH-connection to your host. You must enable your SSH-server on the ESXi-server before you can do this. You can enable this from the vSphere Client or from the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) on the server's console. Once you have access with SSH and you want to use the DCUI for configuration purposes you can type this command:
dcui
And it will open the menu-based console in your SSH-session. To close it press ctrl-c.
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
Vsphere Web Client For Mac Download Crack
With the recent release of vSphere 5.1, you probably noticed that there is a new Web Client which you can now use to manage your vSphere installations and environments.
As someone who started in VMware back in 2006 and has spent many hours playing around with our ESX and vCenter Server products, I can honestly say that I love this new Web Client. I personally find that it is faster and easier to use than the older traditional fat client. Of course you are probably going to put that last comment down to an obvious bias that I naturally will have due to being an employee of VMware but I really do mean the comment…no room for bias here right? :-).
This video discusses and demonstrates installing the vSphere 5.1 Web Client.
The vSphere Web Client runs in your browser and allows you connect to a vCenter Server system to manage your vSphere environment.
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Before installing or upgrading the vSphere Web Client, ensure that:
- The vCenter Single Sign On is installed and the Inventory Service and vCenter Server are upgraded or installed with version 5.1.
- Your system meets the software requirements for the vSphere Web Client. For more information, see Minimum requirements for installing the vSphere and vSphere Web 5.x Client (2005083).
- The vSphere Web Client and vCenter Server are registered to the same vCenter Single Sign On server. This ensures that the vSphere Web Client can access the vCenter Server inventory.
- All browsers are closed.
- You log in as a member of the Administrators group on the host machine, with a user name that does not contain any non-ASCII characters.
For additional information, see the VMware Knowledge Base article that this video is based on, Installing the vSphere Web Client (2032890).