Here are my top 5 favorite enhancements in the new vSphere Web Client 5.5 in no particular order. With the upcoming vSphere 5.5 release, there is even more cool new features in the vSphere Web Client! I have been using the vSphere Web Client more and more lately and though transitioning away from the familiar legacy vSphere C# Client is not the easiest thing to do or always possible for every single operation, there are definitely some nice benefits when using the vSphere Web Client. VMware expands the options to manage vSphere from a Mac 1 While VMware has progressed in its efforts to make the vSphere platform more OS neutral, there is still some work that needs to be done to assist administrators who prefer to use a Mac. Lauren Malhoit puts an old Mac Pro 4 through the test. As of the vSphere 5 (ESXi 5) release, Macintosh is now supported as a VM guest, as long as you put it on Mac hardware. I’m sure we’ve all experienced the heartache and slowness of using the vSphere Web Client in 6.0 and 5.5, it was pretty clunky.
The HTML5 client was first introduced in vSphere 6.5 as the future client that will eliminate some of the headaches of using the vSphere Web Client.
To get the details on how to get it done visit. This video demonstrates the fact that it is possible. Running the vSphere Client on a Mac OS X is something the Mac users want to be able to do.
