Next up, here’s what things look like when we want to view the information about one of our hosts. This may look different, but the terms and views are similar, so you should not have trouble adapting. From this view we can easily move into the four main views that we are used to from the classic client (Hosts and Clusters, VMs, Storage, Networking). On the tree view on the left side, I have highlighted a nice summary of the inventory of the vCenter, which shows the counts for the major items in our environment. We are now looking at the vCenter Web Client home view in the image below. These will get you back to the home screen or the vCenter view from any place in the web client, so it makes it easy to return to the two most used areas. But I did want to point out the top the two icons that I have highlighted in the image below. This is pretty straightforward, so I won’t bore you on the specifics. You are presented with all the major icons and applications that you can access from the vCenter. Hey, this sort of looks familiar, right? The initial look of the vSphere Web Client is not that far off from the classic client. They are using this look in nearly all their products currently.
Upon visiting the link to the vSphere Web Client you are prompted with the common VMware login splash screen shown below. So if you have been avoiding the web client to this point, I have put together a nice introduction to vSphere Web Client to get you moving. Since only new features are released in the web client, but a few old features like SRM or VUM require the thick client, we cannot sent it out to the pasture just yet. We still have both versions in the current vSphere 5.5 version and must use them both. With 2014 fresh on the calendar, you may look back and wonder if VMware vSphere 5.5 will be the last version of the classic thick vSphere client – for some time now, VMware has been warning us that the vSphere Web Client is the future and the old thick client will be retired in some upcoming version.
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