New VMware Fling: vSphere HTML5 Web Client

Last day while looking at VMwareLabs Flings site, came across this vSphere HTML5 Web Client fling. Its good to see some progress towards HTML5 based web client, first VMware engineers came up with HTML5 based embedded host client and now this.
As per the given info, this web client is written using HTML5 and Javascript and available for kind of beta testing however this Fling is not fully complete yet.

As per the team behind this fling, we wanted to get it in front of our customers as soon as possible, and so we are only offering the following features for the time being (we feel that these are the most commonly used actions/views):

• VM Power Operations (common cases)
• VM Edit Settings (simple CPU, Memory, Disk changes)
• VM Console
• VM and Host Summary pages
• VM Migration (only to a Host)
• Clone to Template/VM
• Create VM on a Host (limited)
• Additional monitoring views (Performance charts, Tasks, Events)
• Global Views (Recent tasks, Alarms–view only)

This Fling has been designed to work with your existing vSphere 6.0 environments. The new client is deployed as a new VM from the downloadable OVA.  Currently the installation instructions are command line-based, but we are working on a GUI installation and plan to release it as an update to this Fling once it is ready.
We intend to regularly update this Fling to both provide new features and address reported issues, based on feedback.

Are you ready? Click here to get started with the vSphere HTML5 Web Client.  

Make sure to check out the list of known issues and notes before jumping in.


That's it... :)