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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