The more feedback our partners receive, the better chance you will get a vSphere Web Client plugin or any other feature for that matter! If you are a customer and you do not see a specific vendor plugin, I highly recommend you reach out to your vendor and provide them feedback, this includes VMware. I have also tried to include links to each of the 3rd party plugins so you can easily get more information about each of them. I have broken the list by VMware, Partners, Scripted (legacy) and Unreleased vSphere Web Client plugins.

Well, I decided to do some research as well as leverage my Twitter followers to help me build out the complete list of vSphere Web Client plugins. I have found it quite difficult to find all the plugins that are available and I bet customers would love to see a consolidated list in one place that they can search through.

Just take a look at the transition from classic ESX to ESXi, it took several years for that to really sink in through the various updates and it is no longer a question or concern anymore.Ī common request that I have heard from customers regarding the new vSphere Web Client is the availability of 3rd party vendor plugins. In vSphere 5.1, it was completely revamped to bring the large majority of functionality that we have all been used to in the vSphere C# Client and VMware will continue to close this gap and bring other improvements with future releases of vSphere.Īs with any major change, this will not happen overnight and will take time for VMware, customers and partners to transition over. The vSphere Web Client was first introduced with the release of vSphere 5.0 with limited virtual machine and host capabilities.

Future major releases of VMware vSphere will include only the vSphere Web Client. VSphere 5.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last releases to include the traditional vSphere Client. The traditional vSphere Client will continue to operate, supporting the same feature set as vSphere 5.0, but not exposing any of the new features in vSphere 5.1. In vSphere 5.1, all new vSphere features are available only through the vSphere Web Client. VMware has also made this very clear in the recent vSphere 5.1 release notes:

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