Many of us have lamented this piece of trash the day we started using it. Just today I had a session open to my prod VI and one to my dev VI. Just those two sessions of Adobe Flash consumed 1G of private mem. I killed those and opened the good ol .net client and it uses about 100M of mem. Amazing that Flash could be considered progress.
I'm not a developer but I've heard HTML 5 is the greatest thing since sliced bread and VMware is working on using that platform as the next vcenter web client foundation.
What I'm hoping for a new vcenter appliance that is reliably upgradable from v5.5 appliance to I'm assuming v6.x. I'd also like to see more OOTB support for Postgres backup and vcenter appliance backup in general instead of my own CRON jobs.
Oh and a web client that works almost as efficiently as the .net client.
Here's hoping v6 is our savior for time spent on the pig.
vSphere 6 Web Client does not use HTML 5. The web client still uses Adobe Flash. You can download the public beta and load it up and see that it uses Adobe Flash.
I attended a group discussion at VMworld with Justin King on vCenter and SSO and he said it will be a while before the web client stops using Adobe Flash.
vSphere 5.5 U3 is supposed address a lot of the issues with the web client.
Not surprising and not the news I wanted to hear. They must be too busy hiring Marketing people to re-brand the next vCloud whatchamacallit.
