In those year the old vSphere Client (the Windows client side) has (from vSphere 5.1) and all new features and functions has been introduced only in the that is a web oriented client, multi browser and multi platform. But for several operational tasks and for all the legacy vCenter plugin, the old vSphere Client was still necessary, and of course was necessary to manage a single ESXi host without having vCenter Server (the server part of the vSphere Web Client is a vCenter component). Also there were some limits in the. And what about? There are still two clients or the rumors about the retirement of the lecagy client were true? The VUM component is the main reason all our admins still use the thick client. Few capabilities are missing on vSphere 5.1, and yet one of the critical components from maintenance requires the thick client (that everyone is more familiar with).
Certainly the web client is easier to provision, and doesn’t require manual upgrading on the client side, which is a great goal. I look forward to the day when we can use just the one web client, and not have to figure out where I need to go for which task.
I who had the same problem.