A fully supported version of the HTML5 client is released with vSphere 6.5, and the official name will be vSphere Client. We won't be renaming this Fling, but may start saying things like 'vSphere Client Fling' in addition to the other terms we've used before. Fling features are not guaranteed to be implemented into the product.

Summary Requirements Instructions Changelog Comments Bugs

The vSphere HTML Client SDK Fling provides libraries, sample plug-ins, documentation and various SDK tools to help you develop and build user interface extensions which are compatible with both vSphere Client (HTML5) and vSphere Web Client. The HTML Client SDK Fling is based on the existing HTML Bridge APIs which allows already existing HTML Bridge plug-ins functionality to be fully supported in the new vSphere Client (HTML5). You can use the HTML Client SDK Fling to extend existing HTML Bridge plug-ins or build pure HTML5 plug-ins from scratch and test them in the vSphere Client (HTML5).

We will continue delivering this Fling on a regular basis even with the released supported version of the vSphere Client, so we hope that most of you will continue to use the Fling and update it weekly so that we can get your feedback about our direction.

You can find a summary of changes in all the clients available in vSphere 6.5 in this blog post – What's new in vSphere 6.5: vCenter management clients. In the blog, you can also find a link to all the features that are not available in the GA version of the vSphere Client and link to frequently asked questions on all the vSphere Clients.

We would also like to thank all of you that have tried the Fling and have provided us feedback, we would not have achieved the progress we have without your engagement.

For partners who want to extend the HTML Client, this Fling also includes a new HTML SDK and a tool to generate plug-ins. Please see the HTML Client SDK Fling Overview.pdf and download the html-client-sdk.zip and plugin-seed.zip.

Known Issues

On occasion you may see the following error popup: “An error occurred……See more details in the browser’s javascript console”. This is to help us debug the UI. If this occurs repeatedly, please use the Feedback tool to send us any information you have, including your environment, object, and a description of what you did to reproduce the error.

Linux will show a warning on the login page about being unsupported, but the Fling should still work after login

Bug: Unpatched versions of IE can fail to login and end up at URL “vmware-csd://csd”: This is a known vCenter 6.0 bug that we cannot patch with this appliance. The KB and fix are located here: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2109554

Bug: If the client page is visited before the server has fully started, sometimes the strings do not load and you will see things like “summaryView.guestFullName” in views or in action menus. Refreshing the page may fix this, but restarting the appliance server with: “/etc/init.d/vsphere-client restart” should definitely fix it.

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