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Well, came back to check to see if vmware is still stonewalling, and apparently they are. Glad I killed our vmware po's.  Guess I'll have to kill another one.  Making me Mr. Popular.  Way to g... See more...
Well, came back to check to see if vmware is still stonewalling, and apparently they are. Glad I killed our vmware po's.  Guess I'll have to kill another one.  Making me Mr. Popular.  Way to go.
I hate to keep flogging this, but this "webclient" implementation and rollout was and is so wrong in so many ways.  VMware needs to understand this loud and clear and with no mistake or PR or rat... See more...
I hate to keep flogging this, but this "webclient" implementation and rollout was and is so wrong in so many ways.  VMware needs to understand this loud and clear and with no mistake or PR or rationalization. We run a secure airgapped environment.  Among many other things this means 'no flash'.  Among many other things this means that stuff needs to Just Work.  As one poster above said (paraphrased with apologies) "I don't pay a lot of money to have to do the google-this-try-that-maybe-ff-around-to-make-it-work-sometimes thing".  If I was ok with that we'd be doing some kvm derivative.  And then by requiring flash, well did I mention that running a secure airgapped environment means 'no flash'?  This effectively killed the virtualization effort that I have been pushing (uphill, I might add) for two years.  Arguably I should have stopped pushing and just let it go when you guys insisted on flash for v5.5, but I said 'surely flash is interim temporary, and by V6 they'll have done it right'. I see now I was naive and wrong. "Fortunately", if that's the right word, the vm's I'm running I can work with via the viclient.  They are all are for convenience, not production.  And it looks like that's the way it will stay. I mean seriously, anyone could have told vmware (and probably did numerous times ) that this was the Wrong Direction.  I'm not sympathetic with the argument that "well, we were so far along that we had to keep going".  A clearly wrong headed way forward is simply throwing good money after bad, not to mention destroying customer confidence and good will ('Goodwill" is a balance sheet term, btw) when it's shoved down their throat. 
Yeah, that's kind of what I've done for esxi 5.1 to use viclient.  But once I determined that the Way Forward with vmware is flash (evalution sequence..."requires flash"....moving on ", and that ... See more...
Yeah, that's kind of what I've done for esxi 5.1 to use viclient.  But once I determined that the Way Forward with vmware is flash (evalution sequence..."requires flash"....moving on ", and that they've gotten pigheaded with the nuxes and browsers, I had to recommend that we stop any more effort towards vmware. As far as the various 'fixes'...I don't have the time or resources to monkey with outhouse workarounds that at best will only ever half work.   So we've stopped.   vmware was supposed to make life easier.  What's on 5.1 will stay on 5.1, but I doubt there will be any more virtualization (using any technology), at least during my time here.  (bitter much? yep.). Thanks  for listening.
Ah, I was afraid of that.  The flash requirement is a non-starter for us.  The continued nonsupport of a client for the *nuxes just seals it. Kind of professionally embarrassing for me, as I'm... See more...
Ah, I was afraid of that.  The flash requirement is a non-starter for us.  The continued nonsupport of a client for the *nuxes just seals it. Kind of professionally embarrassing for me, as I'm the one that pushed through vmware acquisition and deployment (uphill, I might add), and now I have to go back and say oops.
Hi, My reading leads me to conclude that vsphere 6 1.  still requires flash 2.  does not support client access for RHEL6, either a native one or via firefox Is this corrrect? Thanks
What I figured.  Anyway, playtime is over.  Back to what works. thanks to all.
Hi, yes, I am attempting to use the vcenter 5.5, and had abandoned it for just the reason you mentioned.  But there is a workaround (that I can't seem to paste here)  http://chrome.richardlloyd.o... See more...
Hi, yes, I am attempting to use the vcenter 5.5, and had abandoned it for just the reason you mentioned.  But there is a workaround (that I can't seem to paste here)  http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk .    I had some free time yesterday so I thought I'd give it a try.  But for day-to-day I'm still using (and will continue to use) the windows client in a virtualbox instance on my redhat box since they don't seem to have their act together (to a rather shocking degree) for this web client thing.  (I mean... flash?  seriously??)
Thank you for the reply. I have tried to do a manual install, but it generates a permissions error even running it sudo  (Side question, how does one paste text into these forums?  right-clic... See more...
Thank you for the reply. I have tried to do a manual install, but it generates a permissions error even running it sudo  (Side question, how does one paste text into these forums?  right-click-paste doesn't paste anything,   Edit-Paste from the browser doesn't paste anything.  ctl-v doesn't paste anything) Roughly: $ sudo ./VMware<blah> Extracting VMWare installer.....done VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin<blah> : line 302 /tmp/vmis.xx/blah/vmware-installer : permission denied I've also tried executing it from root. There is no (presumably residual) /tmp/vmis.xxx in /tmp Never mind...Just dawned on me what I was seeing.   We mount the /tmp partition noexec,nosuid.  (we tend to follow best practices for this type of thing).  So how do I redirect this bundle installer target to somewhere more sensible than /tmp ? thx,
Well, silly me, for some reason I expect that it would install itself, since it says 'Install Client Integration plugin...'.  I'm guessing not though. From [well, link doesn't seem to want to ... See more...
Well, silly me, for some reason I expect that it would install itself, since it says 'Install Client Integration plugin...'.  I'm guessing not though. From [well, link doesn't seem to want to paste] support.google.com/chrome/answer/<gobbledegook> it says: [doesn't want to paste either...wuwt???] implies that it installs, or finishes install, on restart of chrome.  But apparently not. In settings, there is no 'install plugins' In Extensions, there is no 'install plugin' or 'install plugin from local'. So obviously I'm missing something obvious, but I don't know what. So no, I didn't 'install' the plugin.  Or the bundle. What am I missing here? thx
First time using chrome.  Would not be my first choice, and not at all familiar with it. I try to open a guest console, says "this webpage is not available". Google says need to install 'Cl... See more...
First time using chrome.  Would not be my first choice, and not at all familiar with it. I try to open a guest console, says "this webpage is not available". Google says need to install 'Client Integration Plugin". So how do I do that?  All I can get it to do is download a client integration plugin bundle (yep.  It downloads the bundle.   Lots and lots of times). thx
Ok, here's what I did.  It does work for the limited testing I did.  However, I've decided to forego vcenter and stick with what works, which is two separate boxes with esxi 5.5 on them. http:... See more...
Ok, here's what I did.  It does work for the limited testing I did.  However, I've decided to forego vcenter and stick with what works, which is two separate boxes with esxi 5.5 on them. http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk Thanks to Mr. Lloyd for stepping up to the plate and resolving this issue.
All. Has anyone succeeded in connecting to a vcenter 5.5 appliance with a RHEL6 workstation?  If so, what's the magic incantation and ritual keystrokes? Made the mistake of upgrading to esx... See more...
All. Has anyone succeeded in connecting to a vcenter 5.5 appliance with a RHEL6 workstation?  If so, what's the magic incantation and ritual keystrokes? Made the mistake of upgrading to esxi 5.5 without fully researching the fallout.  My bad.  I know better, but anyway.... Turns out it doesn't like vcenter 5.1; it wants vcenter 5.5.  Vcenter 5.5 requires flash, and not only that requires a version of flash that Redhat does not support (the appliance wants flash 11.5 or greater.  Redhat only deploys 11.2). Vmware's apparent workaround is to 1.  Use windows on the desktop.  or 2.  Install google chrome.  (which, btw, google chrome no longer supports RHEL6, although there are workarounds) Catch 22.  Gotta love it. Completely ignoring the phenomenal BS I'm going to have to jump through to get chrome ok'ed for the tech set, when I did the workarounds and installed it anyway, connecting to vserver:9443 gives an error that says "couldn't load shockwave flash", along with a little puzzle piece in the middle of the windows that says 'couldn't load plugin'.  chrome:plugins says 'Adobe Flash Player' 'always allowed' box is checked (I checked it.) Any suggestions?  Or just restore the esxi 5.1 system from backup and stay there? Thanks!
thanks for clearing this up. Now, on to the next part of the learning curve.
Oh.  OK.  So I really am confused then. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Essentials-Kits-DataSheet.pdf VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit i... See more...
Oh.  OK.  So I really am confused then. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Essentials-Kits-DataSheet.pdf VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit include the following key features and components: <blahblah> VMware vCenter Server for Essentials provides centralized management and performance monitoring for all virtual machines and vSphere hosts with built-in physical-to-virtual (P2V) machine conversion and rapid provisioning, using virtual-machine templates <etc> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/115915-difference-between-vmware-vsphere-essentials-and-vmware-esxi Basically the biggest thing you get with the Essentials is vCenter. You can now manage everything from the one vCenter console instead of going to each server individually. As well as many others. So, at first glance,  it seems like it should run vCenter Server.  Our high-dollar consultant says it should. Is there a definitive list somewhere of exactly precisely what products I can use with an essentials license?  I mean, other than the marketing pap and buzzword laden blurbs that seem to be so common? thanks again for the quick response.
Purchased vSphere Essentials  Trying to get virtual vmware Vcenter Server Appliance working.  When trying to key in license returns message that says "The License Key belongs to a product that is... See more...
Purchased vSphere Essentials  Trying to get virtual vmware Vcenter Server Appliance working.  When trying to key in license returns message that says "The License Key belongs to a product that is intended for a different type of assets". Yet when I decode, it says "VMware vSphere 5 Essentials (unlimited cores per CPU).   To which I reply  'um..yeah?...and...?' What's going on?  Thanks.