The new vSphere 6.5 introduces the long-awaited HTML5-based vSphere Client that will replace the flash-based client in the next numbered release (not an update release), as stated in the post published on the VMware website on August 25, 2017.
The new client, just called vSphere Client (but in this book, we will call it HTML5 client, to clarify the type of client), comes from the vSphere HTML5 Web Client Flings project (https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client), still available if you want to add this client to a vSphere 6.0 infrastructure also. Unfortunately, the HTML5 client doesn’t support all required functionalities, but the VMware team is working hard to make a full release available as soon as possible. With the release of vSphere 6.5 Update 1, HTML5 client development reached a higher step of supported functionalities,...
