Alternative to vSphere 6.0 Web Client?

[bmcmcm]

The vSphere web client for 6.0 has all kinds of quirks like being unable to sort, and causes popups with certain actions like trying to open a console session. The inability to sort IP addresses is killing me, it just seems like it should be such a basic function. It's also very slow and any change in sorting causes all of the information to be totally reloaded into the browser taking a couple of minutes of time to populate. There has got to be a better client than this somewhere, is there a 3rd party tool that can be used as a replacement?

[ashwin_prakash]

Hello,

1. To increase the performance of webclient, You could increase the memory allocated to webclient.

2. In 6.0 you can still utilize VMware vSphere client to connect to vCenter server and perform most of the required actions.

3. From vCenter 6.5 vSphere client has been degraded.

4. Alternate way is to use the HTML version to connect to the vCenter server.

Steps to increase allocated memory to webclient.

1. Increase the memory allocated to vCenter virtual machine by 2GB.

2. Manually increase the Perm Gen value, by editing the service-layout.mfx file

3. Increase the amount of memory assigned to the services by running the command cloudvm-ram-size.

Steps to Manually increase the Perm Gen value

1. Take backup of service-layout.mfx found in location /etc/vmware. To take a backup use the command : cp service-layout.mfx service-layout.mfx.bak.

2. Stop vsphere-client service. [service-control --stop vsphere-client].

3. Open service-layout.mfx. by using the command vi service-layout.mfx.

4. Change MaxPermMB size from 256 to 512 or 1024 for the row vspherewebclientsvc.

5. Start vsphere-client service. [service-control --start vsphere-client]

Using command cloudvm-ram-size:

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