vSphere Client 6.5 (HTML5) – partial functionality

The Unsupported Functionality table documents the vSphere Web Client workflow functionality not available in the vSphere Client at the release of VMware vSphere 6.5. Any vSphere Web Client functionality not documented in this table is supported in the vSphere Client at release.

Unsupported Functionality

 

Functional Area
Workflow
Unsupported in the vSphere Client
 Additional Notes
Cluster Configuration
  • DRS/HA virtual machine overrides
  • Predictive DRS
  • HA runtime monitoring
  • Create and delete datastore cluster
  • Proactive HA
Cluster Datastore
  • Monitor SDRS
  • Configure SDRS settings, rules, and VM overrides
Cluster Monitor
  • Resource utilization and reservation views
  • DRS utilization monitoring
  • Overview performance charts
Content Library Deploy from template
  • Custom options
Datastore Management
  • Connectivity view (VMFS)
  • Multipathing view (VMFS)
  • Device Backing view (VMFS)
  • Connectivity view (NFS)
  • Datastore default policy read-only view
  • Create NFS datastore wizard
  • Increase VMFS datastore wizard
  • Create VVOL datastore wizard
  • VVOL datastore default profiles
  • VVOL capability profiles capacity summary portlet
  • Upgrade VMFS datastore
  • Mount and Unmount VMFS datastore
  • Mount and unmount existing VVOL datastore to hosts
  • Unmount NFS datastore from hosts
  • Mount existing NFS datastore to additional hosts
  • Register virtual machine
  • Refresh datastore capacity
  • Configure storage I/O Control
  • Edit multipathing policy and paths for VMFS datastore devices
  • Copy, move, rename, and inflate datastore files
  • Change datastore default policy
  • Datastore protocol endpoints
  • Datastore selector advanced mode
  • Datastore capability sets
Datastore Storage Providers
  • Storage providers master details read-only view
  • Register new storage provider
  • Remove storage provider
  • Rescan storage providers
  • Refresh storage provider certificate
Fault Tolerance Displays and Operations
  • Fault tolerance operations
  • Fault tolerance summary portlet
  • Migrate secondary workflow
Host Management Host Configuration
  • ESXi NTP settings
  • ESXi join and leave AD/LDAP domain
  • Move ESXi host into and out of cluster
  • Move ESXi host between folders
  • ESXi host certificate operations
  • ESXi change lockdown mode settings
  • ESXi PCI passthrough devices
  • Host edit boot options
  • ESXi two-factor authentication
  • Configure host profiles
Host Management Network Configuration
  • Distributed virtual switch
  • Edit standard switch portgroup settings
  • Add standard port groups
  • Add physical network adapters
  • Edit TCP/IP stacks
  • Manage physical network adapters (VSS/VDS)
  • Migrate VMs to another network
Host Management Settings
  • Host VVOL protocol endpoints
Host Management Storage Devices
  • Erase partition
  • Turn locator LED on and off
  • Mark and unmark flash disk
Host Management Storage Policy
  • Global view
  • Summary view
  • Monitor view
  • Manage view
  • Related items view
  • VM storage policy assignments read-only view
  • Create and edit storage policy wizard
  • Integrate storage policies in deploy OVF wizard
  • Storage policy delete, check compliance, and reapply
  • Reset VSAN default policy
  • Delete storage policy component
Host Storage Adapters
  • Rescan storage adapter
  • Enable and disable paths
  • Storage adapters list
Host Storage iSCSI
  • Edit general settings
  • View iSCSI hardware network settings
  • Add software iSCSI adapter
  • Disable software iSCSI adapter
  • Hardware iSCSI to IPv6 support
  • Add and remove network port binding
  • View static and dynamic discovery target details
  • Add static and dynamic discovery targets
  • Edit adaptor authentication
  • Edit target authentication
  • Remove target
  • Advanced options
Host Storage Management
  • Edit multipathing policies
  • Attach and detach device
  • Rescan storage
  • Refresh storage system
  • Update SCSI LUN display name
  • Datastore list integration
  • Add and remove software FCoE adapter
  • Host cache configuration
  • Protocol endpoint properties, paths, and datastores
  • I/O filters
Host Storage Virtual Flash
  • Resource management
  • Host swap cache configuration
  • Add virtual flash resource capacity
Platform 508 Compliance
  • Initial support
Platform Actions
  • Action button bar
Platform Advanced search
  • Search for VMs by compliance status
Platform Docking
  • Drag and drop, close, and restore panes
Platform Inventory Tree
  • Drag and drop
  • Inline rename
  • Aggregated nodes
Platform Live Refresh
  • Object navigator live refresh
  • Related lists live refresh
Platform Object Selector
  • Show recent objects
Platform Portlets
  • Reorder, expand, collapse, close, and persist portlets
Platform Recent Objects View
  • View recent object pane
Platform Related Items Lists
  • Action button bar
  • Filter list
  • Quick filter lists
Platform Selection Widget
  • Search
Platform Wizards
  • TIWO (Things I am Working On) wizard
  • Sticked workflows (wizard over wizard)
vApp
  • All edit and display settings
  • All workflows
vCenter Management
  • Synchronize all VSAN storage providers
VCHA Management and Deployment
  • All workflows
VM Administration Compliance
  • Check VM compliance
  • SPBM compliance column in VM list
VM Administration Deployment
  • Deploy VM from content library wizard
VM Administration Global Permissions
  • Read only view of global permissions details
  • Create permission
  • Edit existing role of a permission
  • Right click on object to add permission
VM Administration Profiles
  • Manage VM profiles (including RGs)
  • Batch manage VM profiles
VM Administration Roles
  • Read only view of roles details
  • Create role
  • Clone role
VM Administration Single Sign-on
  • SSO users and groups
  • SSO configuration
VM Administration Storage Policies
  • Reapply storage policies for out-of-date VMs
  • Storage policy components view
  • Create and edit storage policy component dialog
  • Delete storage policy component
VM Administration Summary
  • VM compliance summary portlet
VM Configuration VM Edit Settings
  • Device configuration options
  • Adding the hardware devices: exist hard disk, RDM disk, floppy drive, serial port, parallel port, host USB device, USB controller, SCSi device, PCI device, SCSi controller, SATA controller
  • Virtual machine options
  • SDRS rules
  • vApp options
VM Configuration VM Summary
  • Advanced configuration portlet
  • Virtual machine storage policies portlet
  • vApp details portlet
  • Update manager compliance portlet
  • Video card details in hardware portlet
VM Crypt All
  • All workflows
VM Customization Image Customization
  • All workflows
VM Deployment Deploy OVF/OVA
  • Deploy OVF/OVA
VM Lists Templates
  • Sorting and filtering by column
 Design and semantical differences from the vSphere Web Client 6.5

  • The vSphere Client introduces new visual and interaction design on how column visibility and filtering are managed. It’s done through the columns header.
VM Lists VMs
  • VM list on vApp
  • Sorting and filtering by column
 Design and semantical differences from the vSphere Web Client 6.5

  • The vSphere Client introduces new visual and interaction design on how column visibility and filtering are managed. It’s done through the columns header.
VM Migration Drag & Drop
  • List to list
  • Tree to list
  • List to tree
  • To and from host outside the cluster
  • To and from virtual machine folder and data center
  • To and from datastore and datastore cluster
  • To and from standard network, opaque network, or distributed port group
VM Migration Migrate VM
  • Migration to another datastore or datastore cluster
  • Migration of compute and storage
  • Migration requiring a network change
  • Migration to another VMware vCenter cluster
  • Migration of multiple virtual machines at once
VM Migration Move To
  • All workflows
VM Operations Install and Upgrade VMware Guest OS Tools
  • Batch mode install, upgrade, and unmount for multiple virtual machines selected from a virtual machine list
  • Client-side checks for insufficient privileges or incorrect states
VM Operations Power Operations
  • Keyboard shortcuts for power operations
 Workaround

  • Open the Guest OS action menu to see the available power operations.
VM Operations Remote Console
  • Changing preferred console from the gear icon
VM Provisioning Clone Template to Template
  • All workflows
VM Provisioning Clone VM to Template
  • All permission checks
 Design and semantical differences from the vSphere Web Client 6.5

  • Compatibility check control layout is similar to the vSphere Web Client 6.0 design with no popup when more than a single message is available.
VM Provisioning Clone and deploy VM from Template
  • All permission checks
  • Cloning virtual machines datastore clusters that are not SDRS enabled
 Design and semantical differences from the vSphere Web Client 6.5

  • Compatibility check control layout is similar to the vSphere Web Client 6.0 design with no popup when more than a single message is available.
VM Provisioning Convert Template to VM
  • All workflows
VM Provisioning Convert VM to Template
  • Conversion of multiple virtual machines
VM Provisioning New VM
  • Permission checks on data centers, clusters, folders datastores, and networks
  • Missing devices for hardware customization
  • Creating virtual machines on datastore clusters that are not SDRS enabled
  • Creating virtual machines under resource pool in vApp
 Design and semantical differences from the vSphere Web Client 6.5

  • Compatibility check control layout is similar to the vSphere Web Client 6.0 design with no popup when more than a single message is available.
VM Provisioning Register VM
  • All workflows
VM Provisioning Remove VM
  • Remove from inventory
VM Snapshot Snapshot Operations Design and semantical differences from the vSphere Web Client 6.5

  • The current design is taken from vSphere Web Client 6.0.
VMFS 6
  • Add VMFS 6 version in create VMFS datastore wizard
  • Space reclamation settings
  • Edit space reclamation

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