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In order to have access to the web client you have to install a vCenter Server as a appliance or on an windows server with active directory connection.
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vCenter Server, Web Client, Upgrade Manager and ESXi - YouTube If you haven't experienced the web client before, you can get a taste for what it's like in this youtube video if you skip forward to 10:45. I'm not sure if that's what you were looking for when you asked the question. I'm not sure what advanced features are missing by using the thick client instead of the web client. Once you do that, you'll need to have a functional vSphere/vCenter implementation. From my limited understanding and experimentation, there is very limited access to manage your "vmware server" (hypervisor guest) once it has been upgraded to version 10. This same client will also mange guests provided you don't upgrade the hardware to version 10. There is a thick client for ESXi5.5 that you can use to mange your ESXi 5.5 host from. I'm assuming your original sentence means you installed the free hypervisor without the centralized management. What we used to call ESX, they now call "vSphere Hypervisor". "vSphere" is what we used to call "vCenter". It's gets a little confusing because VMWare has rebranded their products over the years. Once the guest hardware is upgraded to v10, the management of those guests is basically disbled if ESXi is running in free mode. The free ESXi can't be managed by vCenter which also excludes it from the vCenter's web client. The new web client ( by default) is integrated into vSphere and allows you do perfrom almost all ESXi management tasks usually handled by the thick client.
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VMWare's trying to wean us from thick-client managemnt the same way they got us to move off of the full consoles of ESX and onto ESXi and the PowerCLI. These options however don't give you the ability to manage the host or guests directly from your web browser. When using the free ESXi, entering in your IP address of your ESXi host as the web URL will take you to a working web page where you have some basic options. Not exactly sure what you mean by "simply write the URL". I apprecaite having a smart community of users to help me through my day! Thanks to all for your insight on this issue. Click the "Add VM to inventory" button to re-register your edited VMX to the host.I'd recommend renaming the original VMX as a backup. Edit the VMX in notepad and change virtualHW.version = "10" - back to 8 (or 9 if you'd like to upgrade to the 5.1 hardware).Browse the datastore and download the VMX file.Unregister the VM - "remove from inventory" on the host.Turn off the VM and note the datastore your VM's running under.All VM Client settings exist in the VMX file. On a related note for those that are in this thread because their VMs are now unmanagble do to this issue, you do have the ability to back out. There is a warning, but that warning may not be clear. I don't like this potential v10 hardware issue with the thick client, and think it was poor form on VMWare's to even give users a potential to break their own labs. That being said, I back the other comments in this thread.
I feel 5.5 is still a step forward from the earlier versions. *If you don't upgrade to v10*, everything seems to work the same as 5.1 free, but without the 32GB host limitation. I wanted to point out to new readers that when building a VM on the free 5.5, the default hardware is v8 and not v10. Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.Also did some playing with 5.5 Free.Register for ESXi (Enter some personal information)Īfter registration, you will receive a unique license key and access to the binaries. If you already have an ESXi 6.0 license key, you don't need to sign up for a new key.Go to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 Download Page.Free ESXi cannot be added to a vCenter Server.The binaries you will receive as "Free Hypervisor" are 100% identical to the paid version.
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The license key can be created for free at VMwares website. VSphere 6.5 has been released and as known from previous versions, VMware provides a free version of their Hypervisor ESXi for everyone again.