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Experience vSphere 6 2-using vSphere Web Client

3 using vSphere Web Client

In the past, I was used to using vSphere Client because vSphere Client is efficient and fast, but since vSphere 6, it is no longer possible to manage vCenter Server with vSphere Client. VCenter Server can only be managed using vSphere Web Client. We'll see the screenshot later.

In addition, in vCenter Server 5.5, the management port of vSphere Web Client is 9443, while in the new version of vCenter Server 6, the management port directly uses TCP 443, the change of vSphere Web Client connection address:

Https://vcenter.heinfo.local/vsphere-client/

If you can't remember the following address and use https://vcenter.heinfo.local directly, the prompt in figure 3-1 will pop up, where you can choose "Log in to vSphere Web Client" and log in to the vSphere Web Client management interface.

Figure 3-1 vSphere management interface

The browsers and versions required for vSphere Web Client are: IE 10, Firefox 30, Chrome 35. If you want to use IE11 in Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1, or use a later version of another browser, there will be compatibility issues when opening the virtual machine console. So, in my experiment, I finished the test by installing IE 10 and flash plug-ins on the host of Windows Server 2008 R2. VSphere Web Client requires Adobe Flash 11.5.0 or later, as shown in figure 3-2.

Figure 3-2 vSphere Web Client version hint

If you enable Adobe Flash in Windows Server 2012 R2, you need to install the Desktop experience feature (as shown in figure 3-3, restart your computer after installation is complete, and you can see Flash Player support in the Control Panel, as shown in figure 3-4). At this point, you can also use vSphere Web Client to do most of the management.

Figure 3-3 Desktop experience and required components figure 3-4 flash support

For the first time using vSphere Web Client, you need to log in using Administrator@vsphere.local and add the vCenter Servers computer local administrator account and local administrators group to the Single Sign-On administrators group before you can log in using the local computer account.

(1) Log into vSphere Web Client, as shown in figure 3-5.

Figure 3-5 Log in to vSphere Web Client

(2) in Licensing → license, click the "+" sign to add the license, as shown in figure 3-6.

Figure 3-6 add license

(3) add the license interface, as shown in figure 3-7.

Figure 3-7 add license

(4) in the "Single Sign-on" configuration, in "groups", double-click Administrators, as shown in figure 3-8.

Figure 3-8 Administrators group

(5) in the add Primary user dialog box, add the Administrator user and Administrators of the vCenter Server local computer to the administrators group, as shown in figure 3-9.

Figure 3-9 add a local administrator account

(6) after being added, it is shown in figure 3-10.

Figure 3-10 after adding

Install vSphere Client after that, as shown in figure 3-11.

Figure 3-11 install vSphere Client

Log in to vCenter Server using vSphere Client, as shown in figure 3-12.

Figure 3-12 Log in to vCenter Server

An error message is issued after login, as shown in figure 3-13, indicating that vSphere Client can only connect to ESXi Server,vCenter Server and does not support this version of vSphere Client.

Figure 3-13 an error occurred while connecting

4 create a VMware ESXi virtual machine and install ESXi 6

During the installation and configuration of vCenter Server 6, you can create a virtual machine for VMware ESXi 6 and install VMware ESXi 6 in the virtual machine. If you do not do the virtual machine fault tolerance (FT) test, allocate 2 CPU and 4GB memory to the ESXi virtual machine (this is the current minimum requirement for ESXi 6 installation and startup). If you want to do FT testing, you need to allocate 4 vCPU (2 processors, 2 cores per processor) and 6GB memory for each ESXi 6 virtual machine. In this section, each virtual machine created has 6GB memory, 4 CPU, and 4 virtual network cards, as shown in figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1 configuring the ESXi 6 virtual machine

When two ESXi 6 virtual machines and vCenter Server 6 virtual machines start up, the host memory and CPU utilization are shown in figure 4-2. As you can see from the figure, memory usage is mainly high, while CPU is not used much, because the virtual machine has not been started in ESXi at this time.

Figure 4-2 memory consumed by the host while the virtual machine is running

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