Everything is in German

[Sean_Kane]

Hi All,

Current environment: vSphere 6.7 U3

For some reason, when I view the Monitor > Performance > Performance information in my vCenter environment, the details are all in German. This is driving me nuts.

1. I have my language preferences set to "English."
2. My computer regional settings are in English
3. Its an English OS
4. The problem is specific to my user profile
5. The problem extends across different browsers

What am I missing here on what seems like an obvious thing?

Thanks!

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

Forcing a localized vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client installation to launch in a localized language/English

VMware Knowledge Base

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Workaround:

To launch the vSphere Web Client and force it to use a localized language or to switch to English add the locale parameter to the default URL:

• The default URL for the vSphere Web Client is:
  
  https://client_hostname/vsphere-client
   
• To specify a language, append:
    
  • English: /?locale=en_US
  • German: /?locale=de_DE
  • French: /?locale=fr_FR
  • Japanese: /?locale=ja_JP
  • Korean: /?locale=ko_KR
  • Chinese: /?locale=zh_CN
     
• For example, to display the vSphere Web Client in French, use:
  
  https://client-hostname/vsphere-client/?locale=fr_FR

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  Update History

05/11/2010 - Added link to Release Notes.
10/09/2012 - Added procedure for web client.
06/20/2014 - Added vCenter Server 5.5 and vSphere Web Client 5.x to products.
01/17/2020 - Removed old content, and added Steps for vSphere 6.5 and above.

ARomeo

[peetz]

Hi Sean,

in 6.7 the language can also be set on a vCenter user basis ... after logging in to the Web Client open "My Preferences" from the username dropdown menu in the upper right corner.

There you can force a specific language. Check if this was somehow set to "Deutsch" (German).

- Andreas