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VMware is constantly working to improve the products offered to customers aiming to provide solutions based on modern and reliable technologies and positioning security and stability of customer workloads at the centre of our goals. As part of the products technical evolution VMware always considers the official regulations and standards which customers must comply with. When the straightforward update cannot meet the compliance requirements, the product needs to undergo a thorough rebuild. This is exactly the case with the VMware Host Client whose functionality will be migrated to the latest version of the Angular web framework in order to meet the contemporary accessibility and security compliance standards.
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The UI components of the existing VMware Host Client are built using the Angular JS web framework which latest stable release 1.7 has entered a long term support phase on 30th of June 2018. Effectively, starting from 1st of January 2022 Angular JS will no longer be supported by Google. The subsequent releases of the Angular framework (Angular 4 and later) are not compatible with Angular JS. In order to maintain the supportability and stability of the VMware Host Client, VMware cannot rely on updates to a newer version of the framework.
In order to respond to the threat of relying on unsupported technology, VMware has initiated the migration of the UI components of the Host Client from Angular JS to the latest version of the Angular web framework (Angular 9). The migration will remove the dependency on Angular JS related technologies and will replace these with the latest version of the Clarity platform (Clarity 3).
Legacy Host Client
The legacy VMware Host client will enter maintenance mode, starting from the upcoming update in the release line of version 7.0. VMware will no longer invest in new features of the legacy Client. However, its support will continue until the new single host managing UI (referred to as ESXi UI) is ready to be officially released. This is expected to happen in the second half of 2021.
Considering the significant resource allocation into the development of the new ESXi UI, VMware will provide limited support for the legacy Client, addressing only critical issues meeting one (or more) of the following criteria:
- Threaten the availability of the whole client or critical part of its functionality, including issues with security impact.
- Prevent the proper functioning of critical functionality/workflows with no available workaround.
- Considerably affect the performance and/or usability of the client.
- Affect significant percentage of the customer base.
High-priority issues may be deferred in case one (or more) of the following criteria is met:
- There is a workaround via alternative workflow, including the use of the CLI or the vSphere Client.
- Reported performance issue affecting the Host Client cannot be reproduced in VMware environment.
- The Host Client crashes in a particular environment but the issue cannot be reproduced.
New ESXi UI
The new ESXi UI (or single host management UI) will be built as a subset of the vSphere Client inheriting its Angular and Clarity based UI components. This approach will allow the ESXi UI to naturally meet the accessibility and security standards required to guarantee its long term availability and supportability. Adopting the UI components of the vSphere Client will ensure the same user experience across the products and will nullify the need of specific knowledge to operate its functionality.
The new ESXi UI will be considered ready for general availability release once it covers the standard functional flows currently supported in the Host Client for host management, VM management, storage and networking configuration. VMware will ensure it provides the users with all the necessary capabilities for managing and operating a single host and the workloads deployed on it, covering all life-cycle management operations, such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and updating.
The new Client will be initially made available through Fling releases. The first one will be announced when the ESXi UI accumulates a basic set of functionality. It is expected to happen in the first quarter of 2021.
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VMware is about to make some changes to its vSphere clients, and users are going to have to jump through some upgrade hoops to remain in complete control of their VMs.
Things got slightly weird with the vSphere web client in 2016 when VMware announced that it planned an HTML5-powered replacement for its Flash-based client.
Flash is infamously insecure so Virtzilla was doing the right thing, but the company took more than two years to get the replacement to feature-parity with its predecessor, even if it did go all CI/CD and pump out regular unsupported updates.
The performance of the client on IE11 is many times worse than on other supported browsers
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Even that replacement is now a little contentious as in April 2020 VMware just-about-mandated an upgrade to vSphere 6.7 because Flash will be kicked out of browsers before support ends for that edition of VMware’s flagship product.
Now comes news that VMware has ended support for Internet Explorer 11 across the board, which means its web client will be verboten.
“Running vSphere Client on IE11 negatively affects the user experience due to performance and stability issues,” VMware’s notice states. “The performance of the client on IE11 is many times worse than on other supported browsers. The multitude of issues specific for the IE11 makes running vSphere Client on it significantly more problematic.”
Once vSphere 7.0 update 2 lands, probably close to Christmas, IE 11 will drop off VMware’s supported browser list. Those of you willing to keep IE 11 in a standard operating environment will have some work to do.
VMware is also working on a new version of the vSphere Host Client, the tool for managing single ESXi hosts.
That software relies on Angular JS, which Google has sent to a farm so it can chase sheep for the rest of its days.
VMware will therefore create a new tool called “ESXi UI” to replace the Host Client.
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READ MORE“The new ESXi UI will be built as a subset of the vSphere Client inheriting its Angular and Clarity based UI components,” VMware advised today. “Adopting the UI components of the vSphere Client will ensure the same user experience across the products and will nullify the need of specific knowledge to operate its functionality,” the company adds.
VMware will again use its “Flings”, software releases that probably work but aren’t supported, to dribble out versions of the new client. The first of those is due in Q1 2021 but VMware has not offered a date for delivery of the complete new client.
The Register suggests late 2021 as a likely timeframe, because Angular JS support ends on January 1st, 2022., and VMware would not want to leave users in a nasty spot. ®
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