There are a great number of differences between the two, and it is obvious that the vSphere Web client is where the future lies – VMware made it clear at VMworld that 5.1 will be the last release of the vSphere Client
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Picture (c) by Marco Broeken.
But unfortunately there are things that have / will fall between the cracks – and functionality we are used to – is no longer available.
One such an example – controlling the current sessions connected to vCenter.
vSphere Client
vSphere Web Client
Just so that you know how to find it – because it is not where you would expect it.
vSphere Client
vSphere Web Client
Click on your vCenter –> Manage –> Sessions Tab
I expect we will see a number of these coming up in the near future.
But if you ask me – the change from the Windows Client to the vSphere Web Client is a great thing and something we all get used to – so you might as well start now.
Message of the day by the way can be found here in the Web Client:
(in case you want to broadcast something to your users)
4 comments:
Just a note that at the bottom of the Sessions tab there is actually a button that allows you to terminate the selected sessions so I dont think this is missing.
Right you are.... ;)
To me this post is a little confusing as you say at the start that "functionality is no longer available" and then you go on to show two items which are available in the web-client ?
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Just a note that at the bottom of the Sessions tab there is actually a button that allows you to terminate the selected sessions so I dont think this is missing.
Where is that button ?
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