{"id":7704,"date":"2013-10-21T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:22:23","slug":"vcenter-55-installing-vsphere-web-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-55-installing-vsphere-web-client\/","title":{"rendered":"vCenter 5.5: installing vSphere Web Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 10px auto 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient01\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient01.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>vSphere Web Client allows to <strong>manage vCenter Servers and their inventories<\/strong> using a browser. Installing vSphere Web Client you can access all the <strong>latest 5.5 features<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>classic vSphere Client<\/strong>\u00a0is still operating to support only the features set in vSphere 5.0 and used for the\u00a0<strong>vSphere Update Manager and Host Client<\/strong>.\u00a0To perform the correct installation, vSphere Web Client <strong>requires SSO service installed<\/strong> in the system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Installation guide<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"vSphere 5.5: install guide introduction\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vsphere-5-5-install-guide-introduction\/\">Part 1 - Install guide introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vSphere 5.5: installing ESXi\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vsphere-5-5-installing-esxi\/\">Part 2 - Install ESXi 5.5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vSphere 5.5: installing vCenter Single Sign-On\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vsphere-55-installing-vcenter-single-signon\/\">Part 3 - Install vCenter Single Sign-On<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Part 4 - Install vSphere Web Client<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vCenter 5.5: installing vCenter Inventory Service\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-5-5-installing-vcenter-inventory-service\/\">Part 5 - Install Inventory Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vCenter 5.5: create vCenter database and DSN\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vcenter-5-5-create-vcenter-database-dsn\/\">Part 6 - Create vCenter database and DSN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vCenter 5.5: installing vCenter Server\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-5-5-installing-vcenter-server\/\">Part 7 - Install vCenter Server<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vCenter 5.5: create Update Manager database and DSN\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-create-update-manager-database-dsn\/\">Part 8 - Create Update Manager database and DSN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"vCenter 5.5: installing vSphere Update Manager\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-5-5-installing-vsphere-update-manager\/\">Part 9 - Install Update Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Part 4 - Install vSphere Web Client<\/h2>\n<p>From <strong>VMware vCenter Installer<\/strong> select <strong>vSphere Web Client<\/strong> option and click the <strong>Install<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient02\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient02.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The installation wizard starts. Click <strong>Next<\/strong> to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient03\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient03.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You have to accept the EULA prior continue. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient04\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient04.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leave default installation directory then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient05\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient05.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don't have specific needs, leave default ports. Click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient06\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient06.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Type <strong>SSO administrator and password<\/strong> leaving the default value in the <strong>Lookup Service URL<\/strong> field. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient07\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient07.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>self certificate<\/strong> is generated by the system. Click <strong>Yes<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient08\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient08.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"165\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You must <strong>install the certificate<\/strong> in the system to make connections secure. Click <strong>Install certificates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient09\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient09\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient09.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wizard is now ready to complete the installation. Click <strong>Install<\/strong> to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient10\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient10\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient10.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next screen shows the <strong>installation status<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient11\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient11\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient11.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Setup Wizard completes the installation, click <strong>Finish<\/strong> to end the procedure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient12\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient12\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient12.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before accessing vSphere Web Client for the first time, you need to wait some minutes to allow the <strong>system to load all services<\/strong>. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vsphere55webclient13\" alt=\"vsphere55webclient13\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vsphere55webclient13.jpg\" width=\"413\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>vSphere Web Client installation is complete. The next component to install is the <strong>Inventory Service<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a title=\"vCenter 5.5: installing vCenter Inventory Service\" href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-5-5-installing-vcenter-inventory-service\/\">Part 5 - Install Inventory Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"firma\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vSphere Web Client allows to manage vCenter Servers and their inventories using a browser. Installing vSphere Web Client you can access all the latest 5.5 features. The\u00a0classic vSphere Client\u00a0is still operating to support only the features set in vSphere 5.0 and used for the\u00a0vSphere Update Manager and Host Client.\u00a0To perform the correct installation, vSphere Web Client requires SSO service installed in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[583,700],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-vcenter-en","tag-vsphere-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}