Deploy OVF/OVA seems hosed-up with Host Client ESXi 6 U2

[unsichtbare]

I was recently going through the steps of qualifying the HTML 5 Host-Client for ESXi 6 U2 and ran into trouble with deploying OVF/OFA's

• First, I tried to deploy a Scientific Linux OVA, and the browser simply crapped-out (Chrome: "Aw-snap")
• Then I tried to deploy the same VM as an OVF, whereupon the Host Client errored out saying that I needed to specify a VMDK?
• Lastly I tried to deploy a Windows OVA and, after selecting the OVA, the Host Client has been sitting on the step: Select Storage > "Extracting OVA" for 10 minutes now! In the C# client, this OVA takes less than 5 minutes to deploy!

Has anyone else experienced these problems? Since the C# Client is apparently going away, is the Host Client actually ready for prime-time?

[Nick_Andreev]

Host client has been just recently introduced in vSphere 6. I would expect issues with it for some time until it becomes stable enough. For deployments with a vCenter, Web Client is the way to go. For non-vCenter deployment it would still be the C# client.

But that's just my two cents.