VMware: vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling - Novedades

Saludos, cada día que pasa, o mejor, semana o ciclo de dos semanas vSphere Web Client mejora y podemos ver un producto cada vez más maduro, os dejo una captura de pantalla de la última Release 3.36, que ya luce genial.

ACTUALIZADO – Proceso de actualización a Release 3.36 – Build 8111348

Vamos a ver los pasos para actualizar a la última versión, que podemos tener en pocos minutos, otra de las mejoras de este nuevo vSphere Web Client.

Lo primero que haremos será detener el servicio actual de vSphere Web Client:

 wget https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/vsphere_html_client/installer-3.36.0.bsx --no-check-certificate
--2018-03-28 21:42:54--  https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/vsphere_html_client/installer-3.36.0.bsx
Resolving download3.vmware.com (download3.vmware.com)... 23.43.34.149, 2a02:26f0:d3:488::2ef, 2a02:26f0:d3:4a5::2ef
Connecting to download3.vmware.com (download3.vmware.com)|23.43.34.149|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify download3.vmware.com's certificate, issued by â€˜/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4â€™:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 148840748 (142M) [application/x-octet-stream]
Saving to: â€˜installer-3.36.0.bsxâ€™

100%[=============================================>] 148,840,748 6.10MB/s   in 26s    

2018-03-28 21:43:21 (5.48 MB/s) - â€˜installer-3.36.0.bsxâ€™ saved [148840748/148840748]

Aplicaremos permisos de ejecución al fichero

chmod +x installer-3.36.0.bsx

Y lanzaremos la instalación

./installer-3.36.0.bsx

Self Extracting installer

vsphere-client-config-ui-1.0.0.0-6365410.noarch.rpm
vsphere-h5-client-3.36.0-8111348.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
        package vsphere-client-config-ui-1.0.0.0-6365410.noarch is already installed
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:vsphere-h5-client-3.36.0-8111348 ################################# [ 50%]
h5-client rpm post-install scripts. Logs are available in: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/server/vsphere-client-rpm.log
Cleaning up / removing...
   2:vsphere-h5-client-3.35.0-7914771 ################################# [100%]
/root

Es hora de arrancar el servicio

/etc/init.d/vsphere-client start
vSphere Client Web Server application is being initialized

Y pasados unos minutos ya podremos acceder vía web al nuevo vSphere Web Client, actualizado a la última Release

Nuevas funcionalidades por cada Release

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fling 3.26 – Build 6984758

New Features

License Products Details

Add New License action

Improvements

Enhanced the performance of the Datastore File Browser

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Improvements

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

Fling 3.16 – Build 5956761

New Features

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

Improvements

Select TCP/IP stack while creating new VMkernel network adapter

Fling 3.15 – Build 5702473

New Features

Create VM with existing hard disk (vmdk)

Create VM with RDM disk

Storage Policy’s Storage Compatibility

Improvements

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