But I did not find a need to do this as the thumbprint should not change. The SSL thumbprint at the end of $ConsoleUrl will need to be changed to match the thumbprint for your vCenter server.
#VSPHERE CLIENT 5.5 CONSOLE TAB UPDATE#
To work with update 2 change the ConsolePort variable from 7331 to 7343 and change $ConsoleUrl from HTTP to HTTPS. In update 2 and later the console defaults to HTTPS. The script below will work with vSphere 5.5 and 5.5 update 1. I have converted William’s efforts to a PowerShell script, as this fits better with the system we are using, so am publishing it here in case it helps anyone else looking in to this who are more comfortable with PowerShell than Perl or just save someone else the work of converting it.
#VSPHERE CLIENT 5.5 CONSOLE TAB HOW TO#
This has been made a lot easier with the inclusion in the more recent versions of the vSphere web client of a console that runs over web sockets in HTML5 as opposed to the earlier VMRC plug-in which would only run on windows and required the plug-in to be installed.Īs the new console runs over HTML5 it will run in any modern browser on any OS, (Although we are having problems getting text input to the console on mobile devices.) There is also a great article be William Lam on Virtually Ghetto on how to generate the URL with a Perl script. VMware Infrastructure product page - VMware, Inc.I have recently been doing a lot of work around providing Console access to VMs sitting in a vSphere environment.^ "What's New, Part 2, in vSphere 7 Update 2".^ "What's New with VMware vSphere 7 Update 1".^ "Introducing vSphere 7: Essential Services for the Modern Hybrid Cloud".^ "Introducing vSphere 6.5 - VMware vSphere Blog".^ "SAP and VMware Announce SAP HANA® for Production Use on VMware vSphere 5.5".^ "VMware vSphere® 5.1 Helps SMBs Simplify and Protect Their IT Environments with New Business Continuity and Management Capabilities".^ "VMware ESX 4.1 Update 1 Release Notes".^ "Server Virtualization with VMware vSphere | VMware India".VMware VMFS, the VMware file system component.VMware ESX/ESXi, the hypervisor operating system component.On March 9, 2021, VMware announced vSphere 7.0 Update 2.On September 15, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0 Update 1.On March 10, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0.On April 17, 2018, VMware announced vSphere 6.7 focusing on simple and efficient management at scale, further improved security features, a universal application platform, and seamless hybrid cloud experience.On October 18, 2016, VMware announced vSphere 6.5 focusing on a simplified experience and improving security features.On February 3, 2015, VMware announced vSphere 6.0 with many new features and enhancements.On May 2014 SAP and VMware announced the availability of SAP HANA for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5.This extended vSphere to include VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Replication and vShield Endpoint. On August 27, 2012, VMware released vSphere 5.1.The icons are displayed next to the virtual machine name on the top of each virtual machine management tab. You can use the quick action icons to perform common virtual machine tasks. On July 12, 2011, VMware released version 5 of VMware vSphere. Starting with vSphere 6.7 Update 1, you can have the following options in the vSphere Client.On 10 February 2011 VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 to add support for RHEL 6, RHEL 5.6, SLES 11 SP1 for VMware, Ubuntu 10.10, and Solaris 10 Update 9.