Summary
vSphere Mobile Client enables administrators to monitor and manage vSphere infrastructure directly from any mobile device. Whether you want to check on the current or historical resource consumption; you want to get notifications on long running tasks; or you want to check the currently running tasks - the vSphere Mobile Client is there to help.
Features- VM overview: Review the status of your VMs including state (powered on/off), resource usage and configuration information
- VM management: Change the power state of a VM or restart it. Locating the virtual machine to operate on can be done through search.
- Task monitoring: Subscribe to any running task and receive a notification on your mobile device upon task completion, even when your device is in-active or you have another application running on the foreground.
- Performance charts: Monitor the resource usage of a VM in real time or a day, week, month or year back. Counters include CPU, Memory, Storage and Network.
NOTE: vSphere Mobile Client is currently available for Android devices and vCenter 6.0+ deployments. Check the “Requirements” tab for more details. Access to vSphere infrastructure may require a secure access method such as VPN on a mobile device.
This is a technical preview release and as such it only has a limited subset of the intended functionality. The team would be releasing updates with new features regularly, but our main task is to gather feedback so please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
Requirements
- Mobile Device using Android version 4.4 (KitKat) or newer
- iOS, Windows Phone and other mobile OS not supported
- For Notification Appliance - 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 14 GB storage
- An existing VC (version 6.0 or newer) installation (VCSA or Windows).
- Application is tested on the vCenter VCSA 6.5 GA release.
Instructions
(for device compatibility please check the Requirements tab)
vSphere Mobile Client for Android devices
The vSphere Mobile Client Notification Service is used to enable push notifications to your mobile devices. You can deploy the Notification service in one of these ways:
- as an OVA archive
- as a Docker container
Make sure you also check out the included configuration utility as it could make the whole installation process easier.
All of the above artifacts are included in the drop down list to the left of your screen.
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Changelog
Version 2.2.0 Update:
New features:
- Add filtering by severity options for Alarm and Events
- Add windows key button in the virtual console keyboard for key combos
Improvements:
- Improve VM console stability on device rotation
- Add missing back button on the login pages
- Update app logo icon and splash screens
Version 2.1.0 Update:
Improvements:
- Compatibility with some ESXi versions using certain licenses has been improved. Operations should now work against those hosts.
Version 2.0.0 Update:
New features:
- Introduction of VMware Cloud with VMware on AWS. Access your cloud vCenter servers from within the mobile app.
- VM details page: navigation to related objects now possible
Improvements:
- Virtual Machine details page now loads faster when it's powered off
- Fixed an issue where the app would show two spinners when navigating between views
Version 1.14.0 Update:
New features:
- added a details page for tasks
- added the option to set default keyboard in the settings page
- added an option to switch between native OS keyboard and extended keyboard
- added an option to acknowledge triggered alarms
- added a datastore list page
- added option to suspend a virtual machine
Improvements:
- added refresh to vm, host and cluster details pages
- order alerts by severity in the details pages
- various bugfixes
Version 1.13.2 Update:
New features:
- Datastore details page (link from VM details page)
Improvements:
- Fixed issues related to connecting to standalone ESXi VM console
- Fixed issues when switching between servers
Version 1.11.0
New features:
- Virtual keyboard for VM console, with all special keys available
- Details page for cluster objects
Improvements:
- iOS devices now have the VM console, still requires direct ESXi connection for both Android and iOS
- Library updates for better compatibility
Bugfixes:
- Host no longer shows as standalone when part of a cluster
- Issues for all objects are calculated similarly, by adding together fired alarms and configuration issues
- Virtual CPU count in VM summary page is now correct
- All details pages are showing information in a similar way
Version 1.10.2
Improvements/Fixes
- Better support for older devices
- Fix some issues related to the back button
- Fix for the annotation not defined issue
Version 1.10.1
- Fixed "TypeError : Cannot read property of 'annotation' of undefined"
- Errors causing white screen should now have more information about the cause
We would welcome any screenshots or error reports leading to white screen errors, as it is very hard for the team to reproduce them locally. Please send the reports to vsphere-mobile-client@vmware.com or report them using the store feedback form. Many thanks!
Version 1.9.1
Features:
- Added host shutdown quick action
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the app would crash when using face ID authentication (iOS)
- Fixed an issue in the VM card (reversed icons for Windows and Linux)
Version 1.9.0
New features:
- Ability to save information around a vCenter server (address/username)
- Use FaceId/Fingerprint recognition to login to a vCenter server
Bug fixes:
- Do not make first letter uppercase on input fields on the login form
- Better compatibility with auto-complete applications on the login form
Version 1.6.0
- Hosts can now be rebooted from the UI
- Recent tasks can now be viewed in tasks view (running/in-progress)
- Redesigned cards: VM card, host card, cluster card, task card
- Quick actions can now be easily accessed with a tap on the card
- VM cards display a screenshot which can be enlarged by taping on it
- A feedback portlet has been added to the dashboard, you can know provide feedback from within the app
- Performance charts are now available for hosts
- Navigation menu items are now larger to faciliate taping on those
- Supports mobile devices using Android version 4.4 (KitKat) or newer
- Supports mobile devices using iOS version 10 or newer
- No other mobile operating systems are currently supported
- For Notification Appliance - 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 14 GB storage
- An existing VC (version 6.0 or newer) installation (VCSA or Windows).
- Application is tested on the vCenter VCSA 6.5 GA release.
- Hosts can now be rebooted from the UI
- Recent tasks can now be viewed in tasks view (running/in-progress)
- Redesigned cards: VM card, host card, cluster card, task card
- Quick actions can now be easily accessed with a tap on the card
- VM cards display a screenshot which can be enlarged by taping on it
- A feedback portlet has been added to the dashboard, you can know provide feedback from within the app
- Performance charts are now available for hosts
- Navigation menu items are now larger to faciliate taping on those
Version 1.5.0
New features
- Direct connections to the ESXi hosts are now supported
- Host can now be put in maintenance mode
Improvements
- Going back from the details pages would not refresh the VM list
- Improvements to how we indicate the user is in focused mode
- Cluster card now shows issues, DRS, HA and number of vMotion events
- Host card now shows issues, number of VMs, uptime and connection status
Bug Fixes
- Removing a bookmark when in focused mode removes the item from the list too
Version 1.4.0
New features
- Cluster view
Improvements
- Confirmation dialog on VM quick actions
New Bug Fixes
- Task card layout improvements
- Alarms and events truncation issue has been fixed
- iOS crash report improvements
Version 1.3.0
New features:
- Hosts view
- vCenter dashboard now includes items with most alerts
Improvements
- Crash reporting for iOS
- Event categories are now visible (alarm, error, warning)
Bug Fixes
- Better handling of vCenter name retrieval
Version 1.2.0
New features:
- Focused inventory (bookmark a VM and then enter focused mode by clicking the bullseye button in the header)
- vCenter dashboard now has host and virtual machine aggregates
- Swiping the VM card displays a screenshot, clicking on it displays an even larger image
Bug Fixes
- Removed option to delete virtual machines
- Improvements to the login page
- Improvements to the events and alarms page
Version 1.1.0
New features:
- Home dashboard shows the overall VC usage
- Events & Alarms view
- Swiping the VM card displays a screenshot, clicking on it displays an even larger image
- Actions now appear in a dedicated view which appears after clicking the ellipsis on a VM card
- Tasks page can be manually refreshed
Bug fixes/Improvements:
- Infinite loading of large inventories issue has been resolved
- Login page improvements
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