VMworld 2015/vSphere Web Client

vSphere Web Client - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
by Yavor Boychev (VMware), and Dennis Lu (VMware)

Announcements
Introducing the HTML5 vSphere Host Client (released as Fling)

HTML5 Web Client – It’s coming… possibly (tech preview)

vSphere Web Client 6.0
New changes and features:
 * Home menu allows very fast navigation between views
 * Shortcuts by clicking on home button (anything that is found on the home page)
 * Action menus have less clicks and are more familiar
 * Recent tasks at the bottom allow room for more information
 * Docking UI allows customization of web client layout
 * 2x Performance on Summary Views
 * 10x Performance on action menus

vSphere Web Client 5.5 Features You May Not Be Aware Of

 * Shift+click – select multiple objects, batch the actions
 * History – right click for more
 * Recent objects – jump around quickly
 * Minimize wizard – save progress (across sessions)
 * Browser bookmark – save and share urls using your browser

vSphere Web Client 6.0 Update 1

 * vSphere Update Manager UI in Web Client
 * Custom attributes UI in Web client
 * Onyx – Record PowerCLI from Web Client
 * Plugin that records actions to generate corresponding PowerCLI script
 * PowerActions – execute PowerCLI directly from Web Client

Sneak Peak

 * More performance improvements
 * Web Client Upgrade - improvements without touching vCenter
 * UI enchacements - reduce clicks and make things easier to find
 * action buttons on top
 * recent objects pane (no longer looks like a refresh button)
 * "Go to" menu - speed up navigation
 * fast access to object's subtabs
 * Promote related objects - ease discovery of objects
 * new object tabs + sub-tabs
 * Action labels - make actions easier to identify
 * Hover search - search for settings

Unofficial Wiki
http://tiny.cc/webclientwiki ->  https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/VSphere_Web_Client