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1. vSphere Web Client - Technical Walkthrough
Ameet Jani, VMware
Justin King, VMware
VSVC5436
#VSVC5436

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Agenda
 A New Client, Where the Desktop Client Fell Short?
 The New Face of vSphere Administration
 Multi Tiered Architecture
 Workflows
 vSphere Web Client Plugins
 Software Development Kit (SDK)
 Summary

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End of Life for the vSphere Client
The vSphere 5.x release of vSphere will
be the final release of the Desktop client

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Where the Desktop Client Fell Short
 Single Platform Support (Windows)
 Scalability Limits
 White Screen of Death
 Inconsistent look and feel across VMware solutions
 Workflow Lock
 Upgrades

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Enhanced – vSphere Web Client
 The NEW virtual infrastructure client
• Primary client for vSphere administrators starting in vSphere 5.1
• Matched functionality to legacy VI Client
• Additional vCenter 5.1 functionality, only available thru the vSphere Web Client
 Browser based
• Internet Explorer / FireFox / Chrome fully supported on Linux and Windows
• Others (Safari etc) are possible
• But without VM console access
Welcome to the new
vSphere Administration

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Multi-tiered Architecture Allowing Scale Out
The vSphere Web
Client runs within
a browser
vCenter in either
single or
Linked mode
operation vCenter
Fx
Application
Server that
provides a
scalable back end
Flex Client
Back End
The Inventory
Service obtains
optimized data live
from the core
vCenter Server
process
Inventory
Service

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Web Client Performance
32 CPU VC
1k host
10k VMs
Client # of Sessions VC CPU Used
VI Client 100 50%
Web Client 300 25%
CPU Usage
50%
CPU Usage
25%

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vSphere Web Client – Availability
 A single instance of vSphere Web Client can be seen as single
point of failure
• If vSphere Web Client is down – everyone is down!
• Limited functionality via legacy Virtual Infrastructure Client
 Make vSphere Web Client Highly Available
• Run as separate virtual machine with vSphere HA enabled
• Deploy multiple instances
• Cold standby for manual
recovery (power on)
• Warm standby for manual
recovery (reconfigure IP)
• Place multiple instances behind
a network failover load balancer
• vCenter Server Heartbeat also
protects vSphere Web Client (Windows)

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vSphere Web Client – Installation
 Installer located on ISO image
 Install on vCenter Server or separate server (recommended)
• Offloads resources improving performance
• Provides granular availability options
 vCenter Simple Install
• Does not include vSphere Web Client
• Added with vCenter v5.1.0B
 vSphere Web Client included with vCenter Server Appliance

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vSphere Web Client Walk Thru
Workflows

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Home Screen

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Navigation – Inventory Lists

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Stickiness

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Right Click Actions

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Pause

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Searching

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Tagging

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Agenda
 A New Client, Where the Virtual Infrastructure Client Fell Short?
 The New Face of VMware Administration
 Multi Tiered Architecture
 Live Demo
 vSphere Web Client Plugins
 Software Development Kit
 Summary

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vSphere Web Client – Plugin’s
 Plugins are now server based
• Need to be recreated / updated in FLEX
• HTML Plugins (temporary work around for one release cycle)

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VMware vSphere Web Client Plugins
vcOps
Infrastructure Nav
Orchistrator
Data Protection
Others:
• vFabric Elastic
Memory for Java
• vSphere
Replication
• vSphere Data
Protector

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Partner Web Client Plug-Ins Available with 5.5

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New VMware Plug-in – Log Browser
 Proven framework to provide rich troubleshooting tools
 vSphere Web Client plugin
 Takes snapshot of specified host / vCenter logs
 Provides rich user interface to review log data
• Search
• Filter by name / event / keyword
• Compare multiple logs
• Highlight key words
 Simplifies Troubleshooting

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Extensibility Is Nice, But What Does It Mean?
 Ultimate goal: seamless integration!
• VMware solutions
• 3rd Party solutions
 Define a model and allow everyone to get in
• The Summary–Manage–Monitor–Relationship paradigm
• Data coming from multiple sources (not only through VC / IS)
• Enrich object behavior
• Add new actions, status data, settings
• Add your own objects
 Integrated actions and data model
• Workflows from different products are easily accessible from anywhere
• E.g. you can go to VCO actions right from within the VC screens, etc.

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Public SDK Allowing Integration and Extensibility
 vSphere Web Client SDK allows you to:
• Add functionality with consistent user-interface
• Minimize coding by using the platform and tools provided
• Package and deploy plugins more easily
 The Public SDK available now

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vSphere Web Client – The Solution
 Single Platform Support (Windows)
• vSphere Web Client is Platform Agnostic
 Scalability Limits
• Built to handle thousands of objects
 White Screen of Death
• Performance
 Inconsistent look and feel across VMware solutions
• Extensibility
 Workflow Lock
• Pause current task and continue later right where you left off
• Browser Behavior
 Upgrades
• Upgrade a Single serverside component

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Dealing with the Change
 Takes just a couple of hours to get used with the changed models
• Try navigating via inventory lists
• Setup tags and save frequent search criteria
• Use you browser and platform of choice
 Join our community
 Follow our blog posts
blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/vcenter-server/
www.vmware.com/support/pubs/
communities.vmware.com
@vCenterGuy

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Q&A

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session
 HOL:
HOL-SDC-1310
vSOM 101

29. THANK YOU

31. vSphere Web Client - Technical Walkthrough
Ameet Jani, VMware
Justin King, VMware
VSVC5436
#VSVC5436