VMworld 2015/vSphere Web Client

vSphere Web Client - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

by Yavor Boychev (VMware), and Dennis Lu (VMware)

Announcements

Introducing the HTML5 vSphere Host Client (released as Fling)

HTML5 Web Client – It’s coming… possibly (tech preview)

vSphere Web Client 6.0

New changes and features:

• Home menu allows very fast navigation between views
  • Shortcuts by clicking on home button (anything that is found on the home page)
• Action menus have less clicks and are more familiar
• Recent tasks at the bottom allow room for more information
• Docking UI allows customization of web client layout
• 2x Performance on Summary Views
• 10x Performance on action menus

vSphere Web Client 5.5 Features You May Not Be Aware Of

• Shift+click – select multiple objects, batch the actions
• History – right click for more
• Recent objects – jump around quickly
• Minimize wizard – save progress (across sessions)
• Browser bookmark – save and share urls using your browser

vSphere Web Client 6.0 Update 1

• vSphere Update Manager UI in Web Client
• Custom attributes UI in Web client
• Onyx – Record PowerCLI from Web Client
  • Plugin that records actions to generate corresponding PowerCLI script
• PowerActions – execute PowerCLI directly from Web Client

Sneak Peak

• More performance improvements
• Web Client Upgrade - improvements without touching vCenter
• UI enchacements - reduce clicks and make things easier to find
  • action buttons on top
  • recent objects pane (no longer looks like a refresh button)
• "Go to" menu - speed up navigation
  • fast access to object's subtabs
• Promote related objects - ease discovery of objects
  • new object tabs + sub-tabs
• Action labels - make actions easier to identify
• Hover search - search for settings

Unofficial Wiki

http://tiny.cc/webclientwiki -> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/VSphere_Web_Client