This means you had to download the vSphere Client to administer your environment, and had to be using Windows. How Access to the vSphere Hypervisor Worked over Timeįor a long time, the only vSphere Client available was the C# based, or thick client for Windows. These are now all web interfaces, which is a huge step forward for the manageability of a VMware vSphere environment. This is for the administration of your VCSA, and where you will kick off VCSA updates. This is what we are mostly going to talk about today.

Let’s just set the stage for the terms you may hear today: Today when we talk about the vSphere Client, we mean the client you use to connect to VMware vCenter Server.

How do I get the VMware vSphere client?.

How to Download vSphere Client for Older ESXi Versions.

How Access to the vSphere Hypervisor Worked over Time.

Understanding the VMware vSphere Client.

The vSphere client should now be installed.

wine folder back to its original place (/Users//.wine)

Now you can click cancel, the installer will say it failed to install, this is fine, close the installer.

Navigate to the /.wine directory, and temporarily move it to your desktop.

MOST of the time, a error will appear saying the the hcmon driver failed to install.

NET framework needs to be installed I will post about how to fix that later.

Follow all the instructions in the installer.

exe file): wine ~/Downloads/VMware-client-all- *.exe

Run the installer (replace the directory path with the path to your.

Download the vSphere client by clicking on the link.

**Note: Ignore any security warnings that your browser might bring up.

Go to the ip address of the ESXi host.

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