Mount your vCenter 5.5 ISO and launch the installer. to the Toolkit script: /toolkit55 Install Web Clientġ. 4: ESXi 5.5 Upgrade Best Practices and Tips 3: vCenter Upgrade Best Practices and Tips SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Failover Cluster for vCenter Getting IE 10 on Windows Server 2012 can be a bit frustrating to get working with the web client, so I’ll go over that as well.

There is one installation gotcha that I elaborate on below. Installation and SSL certificate replacement is straight forward. In this post we will install the web client and replace the SSL certificates with trusted ones, by using the VMware certificate tool. Remember the web client is the only way to modify hardware v10 VMs. Yes, today SRM and parts of VUM still need the Windows client. I suspect in vSphere 6.0 the Windows VI client as we know it will not exist. In fact, the Windows VI client now comes up with a big warning that it’s going the way of the dodo bird when you launch it.

The web client is the new and strongly preferred mechanism to manage your vSphere environment.

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