I am excited about the release of VMware Labs Flings release of version 3 of the Embedded Host Client. For those of you who find yourself out of the loop at time, no worries it happens. Here is some details about the the embedded host client:
The Embedded Host Client is written purely in HTML and JavaScript, and is served directly from your ESXi host. The installed client is in its development phase at this time and does not have full feature sets, but has implemented a very useful feature set.
These features include:
- VM operations (Power on, off, reset, suspend, etc).
- Creating a new VM, from scratch or from OVF/OVA (limited OVA support)
- Displaying summaries, events, tasks and notifications/alerts
- Providing a console to VMs
- Configuring host networking
- Configuring host services
Installation Steps:
- Enable SSH on your ESXi host, using DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) or the vSphere web client.
- SCP the VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3172496.vib to a directory on your ESXi host. In my case I used a shared storage LUN or NFS volume as I will apply this to multiple hosts.
- Next issue the following command:
esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3172496.vib
Upgrade Steps
- Enable SSH on your ESXi host, using DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) or the vSphere web client.
- SCP the VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3172496.vib to a directory on your ESXi host. In my case I used a shared storage LUN or NFS volume as I will apply this to multiple hosts.
- Next issue the following command:
esxcli software vib update -v /tmp/VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3172496.vib
Example output from running the above command:
[root@esx1:~] esxcli software vib update -v /vmfs/volumes/nfs/installs/flings/VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3172496.vib
Installation Result
Message: Operation finished successfully.
Reboot Required: false
VIBs Installed: VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3172496
VIBs Removed: VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.2976804
VIBs Skipped:
Tools of choice
WinSCP – http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
Putty – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
For more info on ESXi Embedded Host Client: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client
Thanks for visiting – jermal