Summary
The vSphere HTML Client SDK Fling provides libraries, sample plug-ins, documentation and various SDK tools to help you develop and build user interface extensions which are compatible with both vSphere Client (HTML5) and vSphere Web Client. The HTML Client SDK Fling is based on the existing HTML Bridge APIs which allows already existing HTML Bridge plug-ins functionality to be fully supported in the new vSphere Client (HTML5). You can use the HTML Client SDK Fling to extend existing HTML Bridge plug-ins or build pure HTML5 plug-ins from scratch and test them in the vSphere Client (HTML5).
We will continue delivering this Fling on a regular basis even with the released supported version of the vSphere Client, so we hope that most of you will continue to use the Fling and update it weekly so that we can get your feedback about our direction.
You can find a summary of changes in all the clients available in vSphere 6.5 in this blog post – What's new in vSphere 6.5: vCenter management clients. In the blog, you can also find a link to all the features that are not available in the GA version of the vSphere Client and link to frequently asked questions on all the vSphere Clients.
We would also like to thank all of you that have tried the Fling and have provided us feedback, we would not have achieved the progress we have without your engagement.
For partners who want to extend the HTML Client, this Fling also includes a new HTML SDK and a tool to generate plug-ins. Please see the HTML Client SDK Fling Overview.pdf and download the html-client-sdk.zip and plugin-seed.zip.
Known Issues
- On occasion you may see the following error popup: “An error occurred……See more details in the browser’s javascript console”. This is to help us debug the UI. If this occurs repeatedly, please use the Feedback tool to send us any information you have, including your environment, object, and a description of what you did to reproduce the error.
- Linux will show a warning on the login page about being unsupported, but the Fling should still work after login
- Bug: Unpatched versions of IE can fail to login and end up at URL “vmware-csd://csd”: This is a known vCenter 6.0 bug that we cannot patch with this appliance. The KB and fix are located here: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2109554
- Bug: If the client page is visited before the server has fully started, sometimes the strings do not load and you will see things like “summaryView.guestFullName” in views or in action menus. Refreshing the page may fix this, but restarting the appliance server with: “/etc/init.d/vsphere-client restart” should definitely fix it.
NOTES
- This client is designed for managing vCenter. If you are looking for the Host Client you can find it as “ESXi Embedded Host Client” (https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-embedded-host-client).
- The new visual theme is called “Clarity”, and is also still in development. We will be fixing UI bugs and subtly changing the look and feel to fit the new Clarity standard.
- The appliance requirements are recommended settings. It should still work at lower settings, but performance may be impacted.
- The root password on the appliance is ‘demova’ (without quotes). If you enter the wrong password too many times you will get locked out. The easiest way to fix this is to redeploy the appliance from the OVA.
Requirements
- 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 14 GB
- An existing VC (version 6.0 or 6.5) installation (VCSA or Windows). The H5 client appliance will need 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs and the hard disk will grow up to 14 GB.
- Recommended browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE11 and Microsoft Edge. Others may work, with some functional or layout issues. Windows vCenter: Was tested with a vCenter on Windows Server 2012 R2, but should work with other versions as well. Please report any issues.
Instructions
Please see Instructions.
Changelog
Fling 5.0 - build 15670023
- Updated the instructions with the new location of some files and services for the HTML5 client fling v6.pdf
Fling 5.0 - build 15670023
New Features
- Code Capture new language: the recorded interaction can now be translated to Go.
- PowerActions: integrating PowerCLI and the vSphere Client. The vSphere Client now provides the ability to execute PowerCLI commands and scripts, and store scripts in a library. Custom actions backed by PowerCLI scripts can be defined and executed on inventory objects.
- PowerActions must be explicitly enabled on a vSphere Client Fling deployment. For setup instructions and a quick walkthrough, see the file PowerActions_documentation_Fling50.pdf .
Improvements
- PowerActions: when executing a script from the context menu of an object, the context object is prepopulated, but the object selector control has to be expanded and collapsed in order for this to become visible.
Release Notes
- The base operating system for the fling is changed to Photon OS.
Upgrade from previous versions to 5.0 is not supported. A new appliance has to be deployed.
Server.bat Replaced, December 3
Fix a small error where ls.url was printed twice in the resulting webclient.properties which leads to errors when trying to login to the H5 web client.
Fling 4.3.0 - Build 14483008
New Features
- Ability to customize the header color per vCenter to differentiate vCenter servers. Go to Administration -> System Configuration and select the vCenter for which you want to change the header color. If you have more than one vCenter server in linked mode, you can change the color for each of the vCenter servers
Bug fixes
- Upload OVF files to Content Library
Release Notes
- vSphere Perspective Management has been removed
Fling 4.2.0 - Build 13172979
New Features
- vSphere Perspective Management available under Administration > Customization > Perspectives
This new feature enables administrators to take control of which parts of the UI other administrators see. This is done by defining a set of views and combining them together into a so called "perspective".
- [Perspective tab] As an administrator you can show or hide: tabs, portlets and primary views.
- [Assignments tab] Perspectives can be assigned to both users and groups.
- Code Capture can also capture calls for operations made when managing Content Libraries.
- Code Capture can generate scripts in additional languages: Python and vRO (vRealize Orchestrator) Javascript.
Known Issues
- We noticed an intermittent issue with stopping the vsphere-client. You can always kill the process manually by running these commands
ps -ax | grep java
kill -9
ps -ax | node
kill -9
Fling 4.1.0 - Build 12518617
New Features
- Hiding VMs in Hosts and Clusters view - A very popular desktop client feature is brought into the vSphere HTML5 client where you can go to User’s menu, select My preferences and Inventory tab from where you can show/hide VMs in Hosts and Clusters view by selecting the checkbox.
- User's menu -> My preferences will have additional preference options like Language, Time Zone, Console and Inventory
- Developer Center now has API Explorer tab listing all the REST APIs exposed by vSphere SDK.
- New layout for the feedback tool and feedback tool can be invoked even when a dialog is open on the screen. This enables taking the screenshot of the client including the dialogs. Also, feedback tool now has the ability to add screenshots, this will help you compare the features between different clients and upload the screenshots.
Improvements
- We added the support back to 6.0 vCenters to the fling. You can now point vSphere HTML5 client fling v4.1 to 6.0 or 6.5 or 6.7 version of vCenter servers.
- License expiration notification now is increased from 60 to 90 days and includes all the licenses
- Evaluation License is now shown in the licenses list
- Sorting and Filtering by License Expiration date in the Licenses list
Known Issues
- New layout of the feedback tool has issues in the Firefox browser, so you will see old feedback tool in that browser.
- There are some areas where feedback tool might not capture the screenshot of the dialog, like VM edit settings.
Fling 4.0 - Build 11785236
- New Features
- Support for VC 6.7
- ESX Agent Manager UI
- MxN Convergence in System Configuration
- Import Certificate and Generate CSR
- Code Capture: the record button can be toggled between hidden and shown.
- Ability to remove Script Bundles in Autodeploy for 6.7 VC
- Ability to remove Discovered hosts in Autodeploy for 6.7 VC
- Export licensing data in CSV for all licensing views
- Add and Assign license with single operation
- Authentication Proxy configuration for VC 6.5+ (VC > Configure > Settings > Authentication Proxy)
- Improvements
- Improved performance for Files browser for VC 6.7
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where starting a Code Capture recording would lead to dialogs loading slowly or not at all.
- Known Issues
- To open the Fling UI, you need to use https://<Fling IP>/ui
- The VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) plugin will not be loaded when the Fling 4.0 is connected to vSphere 65
- Release Notes
- The upgrade from Fling 3.x to Fling 4.0 will require to establish new connection to the vSphere by providing the vSphere credentials.
- The Fling 4.0 is based on the vSphere 6.7 client and does not support vSphere versions prior to vSphere 6.5
Fling 3.42 - Build 10321112
New Features
- Dark theme mode for vSphere Client
- Go to User menu and click on Switch theme to switch over to Dark theme mode of vSphere Client
- vCenter Authentication Proxy UI is added to vCenter -> Configure -> Authentication Proxy
- System configuration displays the summary of vCenter (multiple vCenters in case of linked mode) and PSC node (in case of external PSC) and also show them as links. Clicking on these links will open the VAMI UI for these nodes.
- Update content library item
- Clone vApp to a vApp template in content library
- New vApp from a vApp template in content library
Improvements
- If there are multiple vCenter servers in vSphere Client connected using linked mode, then certain operations like Deploy OVF across different vCenters will result in a certificate warning asking users to open the vSphere Client for the different vCenter than the one you are using. This warning dialog is updated to give the URL of the vCenter server as a link (Refer this reddit post for reported issue)
Bug fixes
- Performance fix for loading actions menu when fling appliance is pointed to a 6.5 vCenter with external PSC
Known Issues
- Dark theme might not render well for certain areas of the client. One such known area is for any VMware or partner plugins which are already ported over to HTML5 client. Give us feedback using feedback tool if you notice any areas which does not render well in dark mode.
Fling 3.41 - Build 9687895
New Features
- Code capture: record interaction performed in the current session against the vCenter API, and generate an equivalent script.
- To start recording, click "Start recording" on the "Code Capture" page, or the record button in the header.
- Subsequent operations done in this session will be recorded. To stop recording, click the Stop button, and the recorded operations will be generated as a script. PowerCLI is the only supported language for the moment.
- To disable code capture for all users, append the line "codecapture.disabled=true" to /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vsphere-client/webclient.properties on the fling appliance and restart the vSphere Client server from FAMI UI
Known Issues
- If you have registered the fling appliance to a vCenter which is in an enhanced linked mode configuration with an external PSC and is on version 6.5, there is a known issue around the slow performance of dialogs via action menu. Refer this bug for the workaround - #268. We are working on fixing this.
Fling 3.40 - Build 9292689
New Features
- Host profiles
- Check compliance
- Pre-check and remediate host (known issue exists - see known issues)
- Extract, edit host profile
- Host profile favorites management (vCenter 6.5)
- Copy settings between profiles (vCenter 6.5)
Known Issues
- Host profiles: when running against vCenter 6.0, remediating a host may not start if pre-check indicates that entering maintenance mode is required.
Fling 3.39 - Build 8835608
New Features
- All the features of Auto Deploy (when compared with the vSphere Web Client)
- Software Depots
- Deploy Rules
- Deployed Hosts
- Discovered Hosts
- Configure (Auto-Deploy configuration)
- Script Bundles support for Auto-Deploy (Available only in the vSphere Client)
- Script Bundles view where all bundles are listed
- Ability to Upload a script bundle
- Ability to Add/Edit deploy rules with script bundles
- New virtual switches view on a host which includes topology diagrams for standard and host proxy switches
Improvements
- vApp properties create, edit, delete and set value functionality
- VM vApp option properties create, edit, delete and set value functionality
- vCenter Extensions
- VM SDRS create, edit and delete
Fling 3.38 - Build 8535804
New Features
- Guest OS User Mappings for VMs
- Serial port support for VMs
- Improved search including
- New redesigned search results page
- VM search results has filters such as power state, guest os, host, clusters, datacenter
- Save search
Improvements
- VM Quick power operations
Fling 3.37 - Build 8313530
New Features
- Add VM vApp option properties read-only view
- SRIOV networking in clone wizard customize HW page
Improvements
- Prevent the user from creating a GOSc spec with no specified timezone
- Resize the migrate wizard to use the largest possible size based on VMware Clarity design standards
Bug Fixes
- Drag and Drop VM to folder
Fling 3.36 - Build 8111348
New Features
- Customize additional hardware devices/options during VM creation or cloning:
- Host USB device
- SCSI controller
- USB controller
- SATA controller
- CPU > CPUID Mask > Advanced
- VM Options > VMRC options
- VM Options > VMware Tools > Power Operations
- VM Options > Power Management > Wake up on LAN
- VM Options > Advanced Configuration Parameters
- VM Options > Fibre Channel NPIV
- Warn when about to perform an operation on VM template(s) managed by a solution
Bug Fixes
- SSO authentication error during accessing the vSphere Client from the fling appliance is resolved
Fling 3.35 - Build 7914771
Improvements
- UI improvements on Quick search including
- Search dropdown design is changed to show the top 10 results
- View all results page design is modified to show grouping in the object navigator and the results in the right pane
- UI improvements in grouping of hard disks in Edit Settings and VM Summary. If there are more than 4 harddisks for a VM, you will see them grouped in Edit settings. This enhancements will improve the performance of the VM Edit Settings.
Fling 3.34 - Build 7758187
New Features
- Distributed switch topology diagram
- Batch creation of VMkernel network adapters on a distributed port group
- Assign License action on the License Assets tabs
- Notification message for expiring VC licenses
- Edit vApp settings
- Enable and edit vApp options on a VM
- Move networks and distributed switches to network folders
Improvements
- Batch assignment of physical network adapters to uplinks in “Add and Manage Hosts” wizard on a distributed switch
- Batch assignment of VMkernel network adapters to port groups in “Add and Manage Hosts” wizard on a distributed switch
- Display of addiitonal information like Power State and Quiesce/memory information for VM Snapshots
Bug Fixes
- Create a child vApp workflow is fixed
Known Issues
- Some parts of the UI can accept special characters in the name field (Ex: Tag name). If these special characters happens to be a HTML language code snippet (ex: alert), then you will notice those behavior on the client experience
Fling 3.33 - Build 7616394
New Features
- Support for PCI and Shared PCI devices for a VM
- Create vApp wizard
- Clone vApp wizard
- vApp move to Host & Cluster
- Duplicate a VM customization specification to another VC and with custom name/description
- Synchronize Licenses action (former Import License Keys Data)
- Assets’ details
- Ability to edit VM Advanced configurations in Edit Settings of the VM
- Change the shortcuts for Power Operations in VMware tools section in the Edit Settings of the VM
- Change the maximum concurrent VMRC sessions for a VM in the Edit Settings
Bug Fixes
- Can add an existing hard disk in Edit Settings for VM residing on datastore cluster
Known Issues
- Creation of child vApp wizard is not working - the workaround is to create a child vApp as separate vApp and use move to operation to move it under the parent one.
Fling 3.32 - Build 7496117
New Features
- vApp power operations
- vApp move to operation to folder operation
- vApp rename operation
- vApp delete operation
- vApp export to OVF template
Improvements
- vApp related VMs tab, datatastore tab and networking
- Add Permission action on VM templates
Fling 3.31 - Build 7343373
New Features
- Performance charts counter selection can be persisted. The counter selection are persisted per object type. The data is persisted in browser local storage.
Bug Fixes
- Resume fault tolerance in manual DRS cluster will show DRS recommendations.
Fling 3.30 - Build 7271216
New Features
- View License assets (Host/Cluster/Solutions)(Read-only)
- License and Products features details
- VC and Host License details (Configure > Licensing)
- VDS health checks
Improvements
- Warning dialog when the file download is blocked by the Browser’s Pop-up blocker
Bug Fixes
- Issue where host advanced settings filter doesn’t work in edit is resolved.
Fling 3.29 - Build 7157335
New Features
- Configure traffic filtering and marking rules on distributed port groups
- Export and import distributed switches and distributed port groups
Improvements
- Configure the policies of distributed port groups inside the New Distributed Port Group wizard
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an error when trying to edit the settings of VMs with failed installation or update of the VM tools
Fling 3.28 - Build 7110681
New Features
- Configure advanced CPU Identification Mask
- Select PVRDMA adapter type for a VM network
Improvements
- Thanks to the fling users who gave the steps to replace the certificates for FAMI UI running at port 5490, added these instructions to v4 of "Create a new certificate for a HTML5 client fling" document
Bug Fixes
- Licensing views should be visible for 6.0 VC/PSCs
Fling 3.27 - Build 7055108
New Features
- Popout the Datastore File browser
- License Details
- View License VC assets (Read-only)
Improvements
- Set license name in the Add License workflow
Known Issues
- License UI might not work against 6.0 VCs, in particular Windows VCs/PSCs.
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.26 - Build 6984758
New Features
- License Products Details
- Add New License action
Improvements
- Enhanced the performance of the Datastore File Browser
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.25 - Build 6929189
New Features
- Edit the properties and policies of distributed ports
- Licenses list
- License Products list (Read-only)
- Rename and Remove License action
- You can now deploy VM from a VM template by choosing New VM wizard > Deploy from template > Data center tab
Improvements
- Rescan storage action is done in parallel when is executed on Cluster or Datacenter level
- Replication groups can be managed through Edit VM Storage Policy action
- Showing the number of pending upload sessions and size uploaded in Datastore File Browser
Bug Fixes
- Template icon missing issue is resolved
- After creating some Tags or accessing the Content Library and leaving the H5 client idle, the UI starts to spin and fails to display requested info. The following error starts to appear constantly: “The query execution timed out because of a back-end data adapter 'com.vmware.vise.data.adapters.core.DataServiceCoreAdapter'”. This bug is fixed in this release and the time out error should no longer appear.
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.24 - Build 6862396
New Features
- Ability to customize all network properties, incl. default gateways, when applying GOS customization spec to a VM (during cloning or customizing GOS on existing VM)
- Add NVMe controller for an existing VM or for a new VM
Improvements
- Enhanced Compatibility details view in VM provisioning wizards
Known Issues
- Fling appliances pointed to vCenter 6.5 seems to have timeout issues. These issues are being investigated and are not related to fling itself. In some cases, restart the Fling Appliance could solve this problem
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.23 - Build 6682372
New Features
- Download folder from the File Browser
Improvements
- DRS groups can be filtered by member.
- Replication group are shown on the VM Storage Policy portlet
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.22 - Build 6613965
New Features
- The list of software packages installed on a host can be viewed (for ESXi version 6.5)
- Edit Video Card information for a VM
Bug Fixes
- Fixed few bugs related to snapshots
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.21 - Build 6555866
New Features
- Create and edit VM customization specifications with custom network configurations
- Edit/Clone Storage Policy Component
- Datastore capability sets (Datastore > Configure > Capability sets)
- Create, edit and delete Link Aggregation Groups on Distributed Switches
Improvements
- Confirmation on logout when there is upload file task in progress
- Quick filter is introduced in the network selection dialog at Edit VM Settings > Network Adapter > Browse. It replaces the per-column filtering.
- Enable/disable IPv6 on ESXi hosts.
- Shares information is now available on Resource Allocation views for clusters and resource pools.
- ESXi hardware health: when deployed against 6.5 vCenter, timestamps for sensor readings are displayed.
Bug Fixes
- Cluster > Monitor > vSphere HA > Heartbeat now displays the actual set of datastores used by HA (used to display only the user-configured datastores)
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.20 - Build 6433743
New Features
- Installed I/O Filters for Cluster and Host
- Create and configure network resource pools in Network I/O Control v3
Bug Fixes
- Fixed exception when navigating to VM summary page and configuring VM overrides: “Could not fetch query binding: com.vmware.vsphere.client.clusterui.model.services.VmFailureResponsesData”
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
Fling 3.19 - Build 6365405
New Features
- Add host and client USB device to a VM
- Add USB controller
- Assign License action on VC/Cluster/Host
- Edit/Clone VM Storage Policy
- Edit Storage Policies of a VM (Actions > VM Policies > Edit VM Storage Policies...)
- Storage Policy components view
- Create/Delete Storage Policy components
- Related VM Templates view for a Storage Policy
- Mount VVOL datastore action
- VVOL Capability Profiles Capacity portlet
- Create and edit VM customization specifications (without custom network configurations)
- Configure per disk option on Select storage page when cloning VM/template
- Host lists can be sorted by consumed CPU and memory
- Monitoring DRS memory utilization for clusters allows switching between active and consumed memory for the charts
- Updated UI of the compatibility issues dialog in the migrate wizard - ability to sort the compatibility by VM, host or compatibility issue
Bug Fixes
- The list of physical network adapters didn’t render correctly for some ESX hosts and an error message was appearing on the top of the page
- Setting the DRS advanced option “PercentIdleMBInMemDemand” through the advanced settings now works for any value
Known Issues
- If you see error in the vSphere Client (HTML5) similar to this - ‘getHostIsAssignLicenseActionAvailable’, then you can resolve this error by following below steps:
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), then you should reregister the fling appliance by logging in to FAMI UI (or by running the config-ui CLI). Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for VCSA.
- If vSphere Client (HTML5) Fling appliance is pointed to a Windows vCenter Server, then reregister by downloading latest server-configure.bat from the Download section of this website. Refer the instructions document to follow the steps for configuring Fling appliance for Windows vCenter Server.
- If you see this error when you click on the VM - "Could not fetch query binding: com.vmware.vsphere.client.clusterui.model.services.VmFailureResponsesData cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not fetch query binding: com.vmware.vsphere.client.clusterui.model.services.VmVmcpSupportData", collaps the HA portlet in the VM summary. We are working on fixing this.
Fling 3.18 - Build 6163115
Improvements
- Upgrade distributed switch wizard now supports the upgrade of LACP to Enhanced mode and the upgrade of Network I/O Control to version 3.
- View settings of link aggregation groups on a distributed switch
Fling 3.17 - Build 6088028
New Features
- Create VM Storage Policy (limited)
- Migrate Host Networking to a Distributed Switch
- Configure default gateway address on VMkernel adapters (ESX 6.5 only)
- Network I/O Control v3 - configure shares, reservation and limit for the different types of system traffic
- Customize hardware options when cloning VM or deploying VM from template
- Create VVol Storage Policies
- Warn when about to edit the settings or perform snapshot operations on VM managed by a solution
- Warning message when uploading files bigger than the datastore free space
- Import Item into Content Library is not working.
- Fixed the bug on import workflow in content library
- Create VM Storage Policy (limited)
- Create vSAN Policy (without Tags)
- Create Policy with Tags and Common rules
- Distributed Switch
- Manage physical network adapters at the host level
- LACP support - view the link aggregation groups created on a distributed switch
- Upgrade distributed switch wizard
- SR-IOV support - enable/disable SR-IOV on physical network adapters that support it
- Content Library
- Tags, notes, subscription/Publication portlet
- Edit settings on the content library
- Delete Content Library
- Synchronize Library
- Select TCP/IP stack while creating new VMkernel network adapter
- Import Item into Content Library is not working.
- Create VM with existing hard disk (vmdk)
- Create VM with RDM disk
- Storage Policy’s Storage Compatibility
- Warn when about to perform an operation on single/multiple VMs managed by a solution (currently supported for most VM operations)
- Added Managed By info on VM Summary tab to indicate that the VM is managed by a solution
- Create VM with custom Power Management options set on Customize Hardware > VM Options page
- Fixed “Cannot read property 'storageRef' of null” error when cloning VM or template
- Firefox, IE and Edge browsers crash from time to time on the Storage Policies views
- VMware Tools 'More info...' link on VM Summary page
- ‘Customize Guest OS’ action on VMs
- Delete VM Storage Policy
- Dashboard: performance and browser compatibility updates. Let us know if you notice the improvements!
- All validation/permission checks on ‘Customize Guest OS’ page of Clone/Deploy VM wizards are in place
- Fixed the issue with slow compatibility check on 'Select compute resource' page, when creating or cloning VM/template
- The Modified date column on ‘Customize Guest OS’ page of Clone/Deploy VM wizards is now sorted correctly (by year first).
- Sometimes when creating or cloning VM/template, the compatibility check on 'Select compute resource' page might take longer than expected. You can click anywhere on the wizard page at that moment, to trigger faster completion of the validation.
- VDRS and SDRS overrides can be configured
- Fault tolerance configuration for VMs
- Cross vCenter Server vMotion
- ESXi version field can be chosen in host lists (not displayed by default).
- Fling appliance build number is visible in Help -> About VMware vSphere
- VMs’ Compliance for Storage Policy
- Distributed Switch - Add and Manage Hosts
- Check Policy compliance action for VM Storage Policy
- Create new VM with custom VMware Tools and boot options set on Customize Hardware > VM Options page
- Limited Permission user enhancements for VM configuration
- Consolidate disk snapshots
- Move VM to Host & cluster
- Drag and drop VM to datastore and datastore cluster
- Advanced performance charts can be displayed as a stacked graph
- VM Storage Policy content
- Import, export, duplicate and delete a VM customization specification
- Host CPU and Host Memory bars in the vm list
- Clone VMs or templates across VCs to a datastore part of datastore cluster
- Cluster > Monitor > vSphere HA > Heartbeat displays the correct set of datastores
- Fix the vmotion of multiple VM to another cluster - show the proper error message
- When creating or cloning VM on non-English locales, there are no longer errors when you land on Customize Hardware page. The issue with invalid default value for the hard disk Limit-IOPs has been resolved
- Fixed an error on VM Summary when the user doesn’t have privileges to view VM Storage Policies
- Add an existing harddisk(vmdk) as a new disk for a VM
- Change the default storage policy action
- Performance charts can be exported to images and CSV
- Drag and drop VMs to resource pool or vApp when connected to 6.0 VC
- Workaround for failure to login to FAMI UI (https://<h5-client-appliance-address>/5490) is given here - Bug#158
- Popout performance charts don’t work in version 3.10
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Advanced performance charts: objects and counters can be selected
- Turn On/Off disk LED for Host Storage Devices
- Mark disk as Remote/Local action from Host Storage Device view
- Monitoring the Storage Providers for VVol Datastores
- Migrate VMs from one Network to another
- Edit NetFlow settings on a Distributed Switch
- Content Library (read only view of libraries, templates and other types)
- Delete a Content Library
- Create a Subscribed Library on the content library page
- Issue with utilization graphs for guest memory overflowing is resolved
- You can now successfully register VM on resource pool or vApp, when connected to 6.0 VC
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Erase device’s partitions action from Host Storage Devices view
- Mark as Flash/HDD disk actions from Host Storage Devices view
- Create new NFS4.1 datastore with Kerberos authentication
- Protocol endpoints for hosts and datastores
- Edit TCP/IP Stack Configuration
- VM Customization Specifications view under 'Policies and Profiles'
- “New datastore” action is now available from host’s context menu.
- We now display the correct gateway address for VMkernel adapters for which the default gateway is overridden.
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- vSphere Client (HTML5) application went through a series of upgrades in this Fling starting from using latest Angular Javascript framework (Angular 4) to latest Clarity. There will likely be many minor changes in appearance (spacing, text, etc), but if you see any that are issues, please report any such anomalies using the Feedback tool (please include the tag “#DESIGN:” at the front of your comment)
- Create new VVol datastore via “New datastore” wizard
- Unmount VVol datastore from hosts
- Move files and folders between datastores in datastore file browser
- “New datastore” action is missing from host’s context menu. The action can still be invoked from host’s parent cluster or datacenter
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- RDM Disk can be added to a VM
- Datastores can be moved between folders and datastore clusters
- Datastore cluster connectivity to clusters view
- Copy folders and files between datastores in datastore file browser
- View the IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables for TCP/IP stacks
- Fixed issue MAC address not shown completely in edit settings dialog
- Moving a datastore to a datacenter through drag and drop doesn’t work
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- VM Storage Policies view on VM’s Configure tab.
- View NetFlow settings of a Distributed Switch
- OSGi Sandboxing for HTML Client plug-ins – a feature that aims to achieve vSphere HTML Client plug-in isolation by re-using Virgo server’s scoping feature. More details are available in the HTML Client SDK Fling Documentation
- Added horizontal splitters to Host’s Storage Adapters and Storage Devices views.
- Added details view on the TCP/IP Configuration page of Hosts
- Increased the maximum width of the inventory tree pane to allow displaying the full names of objects without trimming them
- Customized Register VM Template wizard
- Auto scroll on 'Select storage' page, when creating or cloning VM/template
- Fixed issue with removing multiple NFS datastores.
- Fixed issue with Network Adapter selection in VM edit settings
- Dark theme has been removed as stated above. It will be reintroduced sometime in future
- Help -> About VMware vSphere will not reflect the build number of the installed vSphere Client (HTML5). You should login to FAMI (https://
:5490) to look at the installed build number. - Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- New Dark theme client! - You can now access the client with a dark theme by appending the URL with /?theme (ex: https://<fqdn-or-ip-address-of-client/ui/?theme). You can switch back to regular theme by removing the /?theme from the URL.
NOTE: As this is an experimental feature, hence some places of the application might not be themed appropriately (like Dashboard page in Home). If you have feedback for us regarding the new theme (like, dislike, improvement requests), please submit using the Feedback tool with “THEME:” in the text area. - Download multiple files as a zip from the Files Browser (Available only in vSphere Client(HTML5))
- Check VM Storage Policy compliance
- Reapply Storage Policy of a VM
- Host profile customizations for a host can be reset
- Storage DRS rules can be added and removed
- Move VM template(s) to VM folder
- Advanced performance charts for disk usage now display the user-friendly device name in the legend.
- Register VM from the Actions menu of a datastore
- Validations for invalid selections in Register VM wizard
- Hosts are now listed on 'Select compute resource' page of Migrate wizard when connected to 6.0 VC
- Fixed issue with limiting 97 GB RAM
- Dashboard page will not show dark theme when you switch themes
- Help -> About VMware vSphere will not reflect the build number of the installed vSphere Client (HTML5). You should login to FAMI (https://
:5490) to look at the installed build number. - You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- VM Storage Policies portlet on the VM’s Summary
- Inflate disk action in Files Browser
- Remove from inventory multiple VMs/templates
- Move VM(s) to a VM folder or datacenter (Move To... option now available)
- Added Networks; Distributed Switches; and Network Folders lists for network folders
- Accept License page in Deploy OVF and Deploy VM from library workflows
- Edit CPUID mask in VM edit settings
- Fixed issue with configuring vSphere Client (HTML5) appliance for external PSC (Find updated details in the instructions document)
- Deleting Tags/Categories will not show additional details in the confirmation dialog
- You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Edit iSCSI Advanced Options
- Allocate space for host cache
- Chart for datastore usage by file type
- Resource utilization charts for VMs, RPs and vApps
- DRS per-host utilization charts for CPU and Memory
- Storage DRS recommendations, faults and action history
- ‘New Distributed Switch’ wizard
- Remove Distributed Switch
- Edit VMkernel adapter settings
- Migrate VM: Added ‘Change storage only’ option
- Migrate VM: When changing compute resource only, you can now migrate VM networking ('Select networks page')
- Register VM or VM template (from a datastore's File browser)
- Remove from inventory a VM or VM template
- Move a VM to a VM folder or datacenter using 'Move to' dialog
- Unmount Datastore Warning appears when the HA heartbeat is going to be affected by the operation. It appears only when the datastore is going to be removed from all of the hosts in a HA Cluster (only in vSphere Client)
- Multi selection support for Datastore lists
- Batch operations in host lists (Maintenance mode, certificate operations, reconfigure for vSphere HA, rescan storage)
- Rename Distributed Switch and Distributed Port Group actions
- When creating new VM, any changes on the VM Options tab of Customize Hardware page will be applied to the VM
- Edit CPU ID mask
- ISO mount issue fixed
- Fixed display of hard disk capacity in VM edit settings dialog for older hardware version VMs
- Deleting Tags/Categories will not show additional details in the confirmation dialog
- You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Cluster > Monitor > Storage Overview (only in vSphere Client). It gives the aggregated storage overview of the hosts in a cluster. There it is easy to find if a host deviates from the standard configuration for that cluster.
- Host Cache Configuration read-only view
- Storage DRS runtime and advanced settings can be configured
- Drag and drop a VM to datacenter
- Drag and drop a VM template to VM folder or datacenter
- Drag and drop of a VM/template works from a list in the central workspace to the inventory tree
- Delete global Tags and Categories
- Mount/Unmount action on VMFS > Configure > Connectivity and Multipathing page
- The New VM wizard provides an additional option to clone an existing VM
- Can assign custom storage policy when cloning VM
- Delete SCSI controller from VM if it is not in use by any devices
- Deleting Tags/Categories will not show additional details in the confirmation dialog
- You do not need to edit any files to enable the features as described in known issues of fling ver 3.0. When you upgrade to ver 3.1, all the features should work
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Deploy VM from OVF template (Basic) - Deploy VM on a Host using OVF template URL for a vCenter 6.5 only
- Deploy VM from template in content library (Basic) - Deploy a VM from a template in content library. There is a change to invoke this workflow, Right click on Host (or cluster or folder) and select “New Virtual Machine…”, then select “Deploy from Template”. This works against vCenter 6.0 and 6.5
- Edit Settings of a Standard Switch
- Edit IPv4 settings for Hardware iSCSI
- Drag and drop a VM to VM folder in the 'VMs and Templates' inventory tree
- Reserve all guest memory in VM edit settings
- Roles can be created with editable role name
- If you don't see Deploy OVF template and Deploy from template in New Virtual Machine wizard, please enable these features by following steps below:
i. SSH to vSphere Client (HTML5) appliance ii. Stop vsphereclient service /etc/init.d/vsphere-client stop iii. vim /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vsphere-ui/uiFeatures.cfg iv. //change this from disabled to enabled h5uiVmLibraryActionAddFlag = enabled v. //Add below entries h5uiOVFDeploy = enabled h5uiContentLibrary = enabled vi. Save the file and exit vii. Start vsphereclient service by running: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client start - Deploy OVF only works for vCenter 6.5 due to removal of dependency on Client Integration Plugin from vSphere Client (HTML5). For now, you can only deploy OVF on a host and by only using OVF URL. Also, advanced customizations are not available in the wizard yet.
- Deploy VM from template in content library is missing advanced features like “Customizing guest OS customization”, “Advanced network configuration” etc.,
- Cannot drag and drop VM templates to VM folders yet
- If you have ad blockers installed and enabled on the browser, you might notice some issues with the live refresh feature of the vSphere Client (HTML5) application. Disabling the ad blockers and refresh of the browser will resolve the issues.
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- ‘New Distributed Port Group’ wizard
- Support for VMFS6 datastore creation through New Datastore wizard
- Support for adding Software FCoE adapter
- Rescan/Unregister Storage Provider action
- Refresh Storage Provider's certificate action
- Network Settings for Hardware iSCSI adapter
- Create new global role (takes a default role name)
- Storage Devices’ lists now contain Datastore column showing the Datastore which consumes the device (available only in the new vSphere Client)
- A user who is not vCenter Administrator (Ex - Host administrator or datacenter administrator) can edit the VM
- Currently the ‘New Distributed Port Group’ wizard can be invoked only from the actions menu of a datacenter or the VC. We’re working on enabling it at Distributed Switch level as well.
- New roles created will take a default name of Role-name-time-when-role-got-created, till role name field is added.
- If you have ad blockers installed and enabled on the browser, you might notice some issues with the live refresh feature of the vSphere Client (HTML5) application. Disabling the ad blockers and refresh of the browser will resolve the issues.
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- New Dashboard style page! Now, navigation to the “Home Menu -> Home” page launches an experimental dashboard feature with some common administrative metrics. At a glance, a user can get high level statistics about vCenter capacity resources, top alerts, and more. This offering presents quick and informative statistics in an easy to use visual format. NOTE: As this is an experimental feature, live refresh of the data is not enabled, you can refresh the data in the dashboard by clicking on the global refresh icon inside the vSphere Client (HTML5) application. Also, the old Home screen is now moved to “Home Menu -> Shortcuts” in case you still need it. If you have feedback for us regarding the new dashboard (like, dislike, improvement requests, want the old Home brought back), please submit using the Feedback tool with “DASHBOARD:” in the text area. Note, that due to some quirks right now with the Feedback tool, taking a screenshot on this view will only show the Dashboard central area and not the lefthand side or tasks. This is expected.
- Host profile compliance data can be seen for hosts and clusters.
- SDRS automation settings can be configured.
- Edit settings of a Distributed Switch
- New Storage Provider action
- Disable Software iSCSI/FCoE adapter action
- Edit iSCSI name and alias action
- Edit the Space Reclamation configuration action
- Rename Storage Device action
- Added VLAN ID, VMs, and a few other columns to the Distributed Port Groups list
- List multiple VMs in the 'Power On Failures' dialog
- When you create or clone a VM/template on a datastore cluster and you open the 'Datastore Recommendations' dialog on 'Ready to complete' page, your last selection is preserved
- The Memory reservation values on 'Customize hardware' page are preserved, when navigating back and forth in the VM provisioning wizards
- Fixed automatic refresh in Distributed Switch > Configure > Properties view
- Performance charts timeline axis reflects the user settings for 12/24 hour formats.
- The Power options in a VM's Actions menu are now fully visible on Internet Explorer 11
- You can now create new VM on a host/cluster without standard networks. Previously there was error "Cannot read property 'displayName' of undefined" on 'Ready to complete' page in this case.
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Space Reclamation read-only configuration for VMFS6 datastores
- Storage Providers view on VC level with all the details for Storage Providers and Storage System
- Host profile customizations can be edited
- Manage physical network adapters of a standard switch
- Roles - You can view all the roles (with usage data), clone the role, delete role
- Permissions - You can view all the global permission, add a global permission
- Plugins - You can view list of plugins (read only) installed on your vSphere Client
- Delete multiple distributed port groups
- When you create or clone a VM/template on a datastore cluster, you can view faults generated by SDRS for the corresponding hard disks on 'Ready to complete' page
- When you create or clone a VM/template, you can view the full hard disk details on 'Ready to complete' page
- Unify the look and feel of VM power operations dialogs
- You might see error "Cannot read property 'objRef' of undefined" related to live refresh of the inventory tree, e.g. when converting VM to template
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Copy grid content for Storage Adapters, Storage Devices and Storage Paths
- Override CHAP configuration for Dynamic/Static Discovery Targets
- Utilization and resource reservation monitoring views for clusters and hosts.
- Storage DRS overall configuration can be seen.
- Sort 'Host CPU', 'Host Memory' and 'Guest Memory - %' columns in the VM lists on host, cluster and resource pool level
- Provide custom Guest OS name in New VM wizard (Other Guest OS family > Other version)
- Improvements when navigating back and forth in the VM provisioning wizards and changing existing selections
- Additional video card information is displayed in the VM summary portlet
- Fixed the issue with Drag and Drop of a host to a non-DRS enabled cluster./li>
- Added the certificate generation steps to the instructions section of the fling site, no need to fill-out the survey. Instructions include steps to generate certificates for HTML5 client appliance to connect to VCSA (both embedded/external PSC) or Windows vCenter (embedded PSC only)
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Configuring CHAP Parameters for iSCSI Adapters
- Network details for Software iSCSI port bindings
- Enable/disable logging for VMs in the edit settings
- Edit properties and policies of Standard Port Groups
- View the properties of a Distributed Switch
- Hosts can be moved in the inventory (including drag and drop).
- Delete multiple VMs from disk
- Delete single and multiple VM templates from disk
- Upload Folder to datastore action for File Browser (Available only for Chrome, Edge and Firefox 50 and above)
- New Switch Details and Features portlets on the Summary page of a Distributed Switch
- View and edit notes on the Summary page of a Distributed Port Group
- Resized VM provisioning wizards to accommodate more content
- The storage policy selection is preserved when going back and forth in the VM provisioning wizards
- More informative compatibility messages for incompatible datastores in VM provisioning wizards
- Multi-files selection when uploading files to a datastore
- Drag and drop of a host to a Non DRS enabled cluster shows a javascript error, we are working on fixing this issue
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Users can edit the network type for a new network adapter in VM edit settings
- Portlets in the summary page can be dragged and dropped
- Upgrade to VMFS5 file system action
- Partition Layout chart in Create datastore and Increase datastore capacity workflows
- Network Port Binding view for Software iSCSI adapter
- Add/Remove network port binding to Software iSCSI adapter
- Users can synchronize the guest time with the host time in the VM edit settings
- Can provision new VM/template on an incompatible storage (storage that doesn't match the current VM policy).
- Can change the disk format successfully when cloning a VM/template.
- Issue where adding members to a host group wouldn’t display any hosts is fixed.
- In Cluster > Utilization, Active and Consumed CPU are swapped.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Mount/Unmount NFS datastore
- Edit properties and policies of Distributed Port Groups
- Add physical network adapters to Standard and Distributed Switch
- View properties and policies of Standard Switch
- The VM memory and disk size values are preserved when going back and forth in the New VM wizard
- Added all validations for the VM/template name in the New/Deploy/Clone wizards. Now an error appears when the provided name is too long or already in use.
- Power state validations in VM edit settings dialog
- Fixed issue with device loading on Customize Hardware page of New VM wizard when using Firefox and Internet Explorer 11 browsers
- Fixed issue with deleting devices in the VM edit settings dialog
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Performance charts can be popped out in a new browser window.
- Datastore clusters can be created and deleted.
- ESXi PCI devices can be enabled for passthrough
- ESXi usage of GPUs by VMs can be seen.
- Configure Storage I/O Control
- Attach/Detach devices from Host Storage Devices page
- Datastore Files browser is a top-level tab
- Edit Multipathing is available on VMFS Datastore > Connectivity and Multipathing page
- Disconnected VMs cannot be edited
- User can pick a different storage from the edit settings for new harddisks
- User cannot delete a device in edit settings dialog. We are working
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Convert virtual machine(s) to template
- Clone template to template
- Creation of Read-only NFS3 / NFS4.1 datastores
- MEdit Multipathing Policies for Host Storage Devices
- Drag and drop virtual machine to a host that has the same datastore and network
- Launch New Virtual Machine wizard from vApp
- Show active filters in the header of grid columns
- Navigating back in a wizard and changing existing selection invalidates next wizard pages
- Device type is now available under VMFS Datastore > Configure > Device Backing
- Question mark icons are displayed in ESXi hardware health monitoring in places where no icons should be displayed.
- Advanced performance charts may fail to size correctly in some instances. Resizing the browser resolves this issue.
- Columns are resizable on Select storage page in Create/Clone/Migrate VM workflows
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Host PCI devices available passthrough to VMs and their details are listed.
- Multipathing Device Details for host (VMFS > Configure > Connectivity and Multipathing)
- Create new NFS4.1 datastore (multiple servers)
- Mount/Unmount VMFS datastore
- Keyboard shortcuts for power operations on virtual machines
- Launch New Virtual Machine wizard from datastore and datastore cluster
- Edit settings dialog of VM shows Tools Upgrade option for Power on
- Delete datacenter from inventory
- Question mark icons are displayed in ESXi hardware health monitoring in places where no icons should be displayed.
- Advanced performance charts may fail to size correctly in some instances. Resizing the browser resolves this issue.
- Create/clone virtual machines on SDRS-disabled datastore cluster
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Rescan storage (rescan for new VMFS volumes/new Storage Devices)
- Create new NFS3 datastore
- Create new NFS4.1 datastore (single server only)
- Mount/Unmount VMFS datastore
- Partition Details view for Host Storage Devices (Host > Configure > Storage Devices)
- Device Details view for VMFS backing device (Datastore > Configure > Device Backing)
- Enable/Disable storage device’s path
- Remove Dynamic/Static Discovery Targets from Storage iSCSI adapter
- Remove Standard Switch
- Lockdown mode can be edited for ESXi hosts
- ESXi hosts can be joined to domain
- Convert VM template to VM
- VM options in edit settings dialog will show general options
- Create new global categories for tags
- Search will return the results for tags
- Validation messages for incorrect input when adding Dynamic/Static discovery targets
- Once you upgrade to latest fling version from FAMI UI, the version number will not change to the latest one until the FAMI UI is refreshed.
- Fixed rendering of multi-line descriptions of distributed port groups
- Fixed VM Options display issue
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Adding Dynamic/Static Discovery Targets to Storage iSCSI adapter
- Rescan selected adapter on Host Storage Adapters view
- Add Port Groups to Standard Switches
- Create new Tags for existing categories
- VMware Tools operations on multiple VMs (install/upgrade, unmount)
- Performance enhancements on edit VM settings dialog particularly for VMs with multiple devices
- Once you upgrade to latest fling version from FAMI UI, the version number will not change to the latest one until the FAMI UI is refreshed.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments pointing to VCSA only (for windows VC, refer the instructions document), the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Expand and collapse recent tasks panel
- ESXi time/NTP can be configured
- DRS affinity rules can be added and removed
- Increase datastore capacity action
- Add Software iSCSI adapter action on Host Storage Adapters view
- Refresh host storage information on Host Storage Adapters view
- Power operations on multiple VMs
- VM Hardware Compatibility version upgrade on single and multiple VMs
- Create new port groups on standard switches
- View settings of distributed port groups
- Edit shares and provisioning type for a VM
- The VM Templates in Folders list shows full details for the VM templates
- FAMI now shows build numbers
- The selection in VMkernel adapters list and Virtual switches list is now preserved after refreshing the list
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Advanced performance charts (to replace the current overview performance charts):
- Predefined views for most inventory objects
- Live chart updates
- Timespan can be configured
- Zooming on a subarea of the chart is also an option
- VM/Host DRS affinity groups can be managed.
- Host hardware health: the raw CIM data can be saved to disk.
- Update to fling v2.5 from a previous version will not show the HTML5 web client version number in FAMI UI. We are working on fixing this, till then, you can ssh to the appliance and run below command to display the right version number.
#/etc/init.d/configui stop
#/etc/init.d/configui start
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Details view for the available paths for Host Storage device
- VM and Host groups can be created and edited
- VM/Host rules can be viewed
- Host firewall settings can be edited
- VM swap/host system swap locations can be changed
- Host advanced settings can be filtered during editing
- Resource settings for resource pools/vApps can be managed
- Remove folders from inventory
- Issue with persistence of the shares changes in the edit settings VM is fixed
- Update to fling v2.5 from a previous version will not show the HTML5 web client version number in FAMI UI. We are working on fixing this, till then, you can ssh to the appliance and run below command to display the right version number.
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#/etc/init.d/configui stop
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#/etc/init.d/configui start
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- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
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For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Delete VMFS datastore action
- Details view for the available devices coming from Host Storage adapter
- Details view for the available paths for Host Storage adapter
- Some performance improvements to the edit VM settings workflow
- FAMI will show the HTML5 web client version number for new appliance installations
- Edit setting dialog close bug is fixed - https://flings.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client/bugs/201
- Update to fling v2.5 from a previous version will not show the HTML5 web client version number in FAMI UI. We are working on fixing this, till then, you can ssh to the appliance and run below command to display the right version number.
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#/etc/init.d/configui stop
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#/etc/init.d/configui start
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- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
-
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Resource pools can be created
- DRS recommendations/faults can be monitored
- User can now rename folders
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
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For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Customize guest OS during clone for VMs with multiple NICs
- ESXi advanced settings can be edited
- Memory for a VM specified in GB by default
- Resource pool settings are displayed on its summary page.
- During create VM from template, you can now select resource pools that are more than 2 levels deep.
- CD/DVD drive remove mapping from .iso was not working before, this issue is fixed.
- Snapshot delete refreshes the dialog.
- Various bug fixes related to persisting VM settings when reconfiguring a VM
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
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For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
- For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- HA admission control settings can be modified.
- View and answer pending virtual machine questions
- General details for Host Storage adapters
- General details for Host Storage devices
- More information available for host hardware health sensors.
- Compatible and Incompatible with Storage Policy sections when selecting storage in Create\Clone VM wizard
- The maximum reservation when creating new resource pool can be too high.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Folders can be created at vCenter and Datacenter level
- Specify IPv6 address when customizing the guest OS while cloning a VM
- Tags and Custom Attributes available in the entire vCenter are displayed at a global level
- Removing a device from a VM should work properly now
- Adding a new hard disk should work properly now
- Changing a VM’s network should update on the summary page now
- Editing the CD/DVD drive of a VM should work properly now
- All objects (Ex: Datastore clusters for datastore folder) related to folder type are not displayed yet.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Fling deployments can now be managed through a UI, Hello FAMI! (Fling Appliance Management Interface). Find more details about FAMI in the instructions document.
- VM level tags issue is fixed, you can see all the assignable tags for an object in the assign tag dialog.
- Submitting dialogs with the Enter key may lead to the dialog reappear on the screen.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - For updates, you can use FAMI, Please refer the Instructions pdf for details
- Added CDP and LLDP info for physical network adapters
- New "Hardware acceleration" list for datastores ([Datastore] -> Configure -> Hardware acceleration)
- New "Device Backing" list for VMFS datastores ([Datastore] -> Configure -> Device Backing)
- The effective HA responses for failures for a VM can be seen on the VM summary screen.
- Custom Attributes and Tags actions from action menu
- VM level tags are not shown in the assign tag dialog, we are working on fixing this.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Host hardware health can be monitored (sensor state and readings only).
- Create new datacenter
- Add VMkernel adapters
- HA advanced settings can be edited
- HA response for APD conditions can be changed
- Capture snapshot of a powered ON VM with the memory
- Assign and remove tags on objects
- New "Connectivity and Multipathing" list for VMFS datastores ([Datastore] -> Configure -> Connectivity and Multipathing)
- Bugs associated with editing a CD/DVD drive on a VM have been fixed
- VM level tags are not shown in the assign tag dialog, we are working on fixing this.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Overview performance charts now have realtime option
- Input IPv4 address when customizing guest OS while cloning a VM
- Tags are displayed in the summary portlets of all the objects
- ESXi hosts can be put into standby mode and powered back on.
- HA datastores for heartbeat can be managed. Slight redesign in Edit HA dialog.
- HA response for datastore under PDL can be changed.
- Startup policy of ESXi services can be changed.
- There are some bugs with editing a CD/DVD drive, mounting a datastore ISO, etc. We are working on this.
- Visual glitches when creating a cluster, editing DRS/DPM threshold.
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Custom attribute names and values can be edited.
- Create a VM on a folder
- ESXi services can be controlled.
- New Datastore wizard now allows selecting a host
- Tags are only shown in the VM summary portlets and are not shown in portlets of other inventory objects like VC, Hosts, Datacenter etc.,
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Hosts can be reconfigured for vSphere HA.
- Basic ability to edit the HA settings of a cluster
- Live refresh of Manage snapshot tree (revert, delete, delete all)
- Values for memory now default to GB instead of MB
- Objects displayed in the alarms panel can be clicked to navigate to them in the inventory.
- Tags are only shown in the VM summary portlets and are not shown in portlets of other inventory objects like VC, Hosts, Datacenter etc.,
- DRS advanced settings grid scrolling doesn’t work in the settings view
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Automatically upgrade VMware Tools on a VM
- Select between 12/24h time format
- Display of custom attributes in Summary portlets
- Display of Tags in the Summary portlets of VMs only
- Some more new icons
- Added IP address configuration in the VMkernel adapter details view
- Fixed height of the list of standard port groups
- Tags are not shown in portlets of other inventory objects like VC, Hosts, Datacenter etc.,
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Add VMFS Datastore wizard
- Host firewall and services information can be viewed
- Upgrade VMware Tools (interactive only)
- View details of VMkernel adapters
- Select a storage policy when editing hard disk’s location
- Changing the value of the first advanced DRS option no longer duplicates it.
- Fixed fling versioning number mismatches
- Snapshot tree does not update itself when revert to, delete and delete all operations are invoked from the manage snapshot. You have to close the manage snapshot and open it again to see the updated tree.
- Rendering glitch on the cluster’s HA failures and responses table
- After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from: OLD: /etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc
NEW: /etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details. - Specify a different location for a hard disk when creating a VM
- Advanced DRS settings can be configured
- Select a different SDRS recommendation even if SDRS is disabled when creating a VM
- Interactions with the alarms in the alarms tab at the bottom.
- Simplified fling upgrade commands
- Cloning a VM to a vApp or RP
- Valid networks, including port groups on distributed switches, should show up in the network adapter dropdowns in Edit Settings and Create VM<
- DRS and DPM settings of a cluster can be viewed and edited
- HA admission control and heartbeat datastores configuration can be viewed
- Default VM compatibility can be viewed and edited on the cluster level
- Add host wizard has selection of lockdown mode settings
- Add host to a cluster now allows creation of a new resource pool for the host’s vms
- Alarms moved to bottom panel, thus giving more real estate in the central pane.
- Warning will appear if you are trying to customize a guest OS that can’t be customized when cloning a VM
- Navigating to the HA view of a cluster no longer throws an exception
- General fixes to the Datastore ISO filepicker
- Alarms in the bottom Alarms tab are read only
- Administration section is work in progress.
- Mount VMware Tools installer on a VM
- Select different datastore cluster recommendations when creating a VM on a DRS-enabled datastore cluster
- Disable SDRS when cloning a VM
- Add a standalone host allows for selecting a VM location
- Add a host to a cluster
- For DRS clusters we add the host’s VMs to the cluster’s root resource pool
- Copy/paste VM IP addresses from the tooltip on the summary page
- Most dialogs are now draggable, resizable and maximizable.
- Date Time column on Events section were showing times in different time zones, this is fixed.
- Add a host to a cluster is not yet available
- Open remote console from the VM action menu
- Migrate a VM to a Vapp
- Add a standalone host to either a datacenter or a host folder
- Manage Snapshot has the snapshot tree with snapshot details
- Guest customization spec list in the clone VM wizard is now filtered by guest OS
- See faults if a VM on a DRS-enabled cluster cannot be powered on
- Icons have been updated
- VM Snapshot error “Cannot read property 'rootSnapshotList' of undefined”
- Error “Cannot read property 'length' of null”
- Customize guest OS when deploying VM from template
- Disabling DRS while cloning a VM is not available yet
- Add a host to a cluster is not yet available
- Customize guest OS when cloning a VM (basic) -- select existing spec
- HA: responses to some failure conditions for a cluster can be viewed
- View port groups for standard switches
- VM Snapshots features include
- Revert to Latest Snapshot
- read only views of Manage snapshots
- The “Manage” tabs of inventory objects are renamed to “Configure” and all the second level tabs are moved to the table of contents.
- Disable storage DRS when selecting a Datastore Cluster as storage resource while creating a VM from scratch
- Fix to show VM storage policies in VM configuration
- Configuring new HTML5 appliance with VC was throwing “module.js error upon registering with Virtual Center” error. This issue is fixed.
- Disabling DRS while cloning a VM is not available yet
- Only simple use cases of customizing guest OS while cloning a VM are available right now (error cases not handled include: Windows customization resources not found on the server; Incompatible guest spec configuration)
- Manage snapshots throws an error if invoked on a VM which has no snapshots.
- EVC status for clusters can be viewed and edited
- Overview DRS and HA status for clusters
- Read only view of host profile information in host settings
- Read only view of the lockdown mode and exception users for a host
- VM Snapshot with limited feature. Take snapshot of a VM.
- New TCP/IP stacks list for hosts
- Automatic redirects should now be working again (example: from [https://<ip-or-fqdn>/vsphere-client] to [https://<ip-or-fqdn>:9443/ui])
- Correct standby mode icon for hosts
- Scrollbar fix for large lists of resources in the migrate VM wizard
- Bug fixes for the Create New VM wizard
- Upload a file to a Datastore ([Datastore] -> Manage -> Files) - Client Integration Plugin is not required
- Migrate a VM’s compute resource to a resource pool
- Edit an existing SCSI controller
- Hot remove CD/DVD drives
- Clone VM wizard -- successful compute resource compatibility checks should now show a result
- [old] VM Storage Policy selection is broken in both the Create VM wizard and in the Edit VM Settings dialog. A VM will still get created with the Datastore Default policy in this case.
- [old] When selecting a datastore cluster as a storage resource when creating a VM, disabling DRS is not available yet.
- Select a datastore cluster as storage when creating a VM (note -- cannot disable DRS yet)
- Add new devices to a VM from a single menu
- Filenames (OVA and RPM) now reflect Fling version numbers as well as matching build numbers
- More information about vApps on the inventory list
- CD/DVD -> Datastore ISO filepicker is now working properly
- Several unhandled JS exceptions
- Bug fix for host power management settings
- VM Storage Policy selection is broken in both the Create VM wizard and in the Edit VM Settings dialog. A VM will still get created with the Datastore Default policy in this case.
- When selecting a datastore cluster as a storage resource when creating a VM, disabling DRS is not available yet.
- Browse files in a Datastore ([Datastore] -> Manage -> Files)
- Download a file from a Datastore
- URL redirects: your old bookmarked URLs should now work, simplifying adoption of h5client. Examples
https://<h5client ip or domain name>/vsphere-client
https://<h5client ip or domain name>:9443/vsphere-client
Should now automatically redirect to the h5client standard:
https://<ip or domain name>:9443/ui
This requires running step (5) above, the firewall.sh script
Remove a CD/DVD drive/Network adapter/Hard disk from a new or existing VM - Add devices to a VM from a single menu
- Add a new CD/DVD drive to a new or existing VM
- Add a new network adapter to a new or existing VM
- Add a new hard disk to a new or existing VM
- Create a VM from a cluster
- Migrate compute resource of a VM to a cluster and set vMotion priority
- Change Agent VM settings for a Host
- View Lockdown Mode in Security Profile settings of a host
- View Certificate information for a host
- Add a new cluster workflow (basic)
- Remove a cluster
- Connect/disconnect a network adapter
- Configure a network adapter when creating a new VM
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Fling 2.1 - Build 4231781
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Fling 1.10 - Build 4007740
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from:
OLD:
/etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
NEW:
/etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Fling 1.9 - Build 3984031
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from:
OLD:
/etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
NEW:
/etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Fling 1.8 - Build 3953435
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from:
OLD:
/etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
NEW:
/etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Fling 1.7 - Build 3921390
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from:
OLD:
/etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
NEW:
/etc/init.d/configui configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Fling 1.6 - Build 3892664
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
For fresh deployments, the command has changed from:
OLD:
/etc/init.d/vsphere-client configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
NEW:
/usr/lib/vmware-client-configui/scripts/config.sh configure --start yes --user root --vc <IP_Address_Of_vCenter>
Please refer to the Instructions pdf for details.
Fling 1.5 - Build 3866199
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Navigate to the Datastore Files Browser from the context menu and from datastore lists
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To Manage the snapshots, (revert, edit, rename, delete) you have to use the Flex Client. These operations will be supported in the next versions of the H5 Client
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
Fling 1.4 - Build 3838615
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Fling 1.3 - Build 3811445
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After your login you may see a Submit button appearing briefly at the top left of a white page. Please ignore it and wait for the Home page to come up.
Fling 1.2 - Build 3784316
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The Feedback tool is currently inaccessible when Wizards/Dialogs are up. We will fix this in the next release.
If you deploy the OVA from scratch (or rerun the configuration) you may get a message like this:
Configuration process completed! Type '/etc/init.d/vsphere-client start' to start the vSphere Client server.
/etc/init.d/vsphere-client: line 307: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/scripts/configurator.js: Permission denied
You can safely ignore this.
Fling Version 1.1
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Create a VM on a vApp or RP
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Filters applied on Recent Tasks columns are wiped out when new tasks appear, due to the way new tasks refresh interacts with the filtering. We are working on this.
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