1) when opening vSphere Client it shows the welcome message about using vSphere Web Client to use the new features, however as far as i understand the Web Client requires the use of vCenter and vCenter is a paid. You will need to add -inactivityTimeout X, where X is the number of minutes before the vSphere Client will automatically disconnect from the server. I have recently downloaded ESXi and updated to 5.5 and now a little confused, so I have two questions. To configure using the command-line argument, locate the vSphere Client executable on your desktop and right click and select properties. Command-line argument to vSphere Client executable.There are two methods you can configure the inactivity timeout value: However now the tables have turned and with the release of vSphere 5.5 VMware are now pushing the vSphere Web Client as the client to manage vCenter.
Plugins for vsphere client 5.5 install#
This feature looks to have been introduced with the release of vSphere 5 and was noted in thick-client-timeout guideline in recent release of the vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide to help reduce the risk of unauthorized access. VMware SiteSurvey is a plugin for the vSphere Client which analyzes ESX hosts managed by vSphere Server and reports on whether the configuration of both. This article provides a step-by-step guidance for downloading and installing the vSphere 5.5 Web Client using the Custom Install method. vSphere API version exposed in the scripting API is 7. The VMware Client Integration Plug-in enables you to access a virtual machine console from within the vSphere Web Client. Once the timeout value has been reached, the vSphere Client will automatically disconnect from the server(vCenter 5.0 or ESXi 5.0 Server). This technical preview plugin implementation is designed to be compatible with vCenter Server 7.0 API Plugin versioning and interoperability with vSphere vCenter servers The plugin core functionality (connectivity, inventory) is compatible with vSphere with version 5.5 and above. I recently came across an interesting VMTN thread in which I learned about a neat little feature that allows a user to configure an inactivity timeout for the vSphere C# Client.
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