{"id":46363,"date":"2019-09-11T03:01:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=46363"},"modified":"2022-06-11T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T23:15:14","slug":"vmware-vsphere-web-client-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/vmware-vsphere-web-client-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare vSphere Web Client Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/vsphere_power_off_on.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"VMWare vSphere Web Client Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/vsphere_power_off_on.jpg\" title=\"VMWare vSphere Web Client Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VMWare vSphere Web Client Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you manage an Apache web server, you may well find cPanel a big enough topic.  As a layer on top of such a web server&#8217;s more conventional access methods (you can read about at <a target=_blank title='Web Server Access Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/web-server-access-primer-tutorial\/'>Web Server Access Primer Tutorial<\/a>)  &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ssh (command line) and sftp (file transfer) access to web server &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank href='https:\/\/cpanel.net\/' title='cPanel landing page'>cPanel<\/a> web server management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; there is provided by many web hosters (ours being <a target=_blank title='Crazy Domains' href='http:\/\/www.crazydomains.com.au'>Crazy Domains<\/a>) functionality to power off\/on virtual web servers, ours at rjmprogramming.com.au being a VMWare one, called, for us, the <a target=_blank title='vSphere Web Client' href='https:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/vsphere-50\/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-74AA3EF1-BDF3-4752-89DB-A522CDE30A66.html'>&#8220;vSphere Web Client&#8221;<\/a>.   If you&#8217;ve used <a target=_blank title='Virtual Machine' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_machine'>Virtual Machines<\/a> &#8220;terrestrially&#8221; (our thought bubble description of Virtual Machines just using the hard disk resources of a laptop or PC) to think of them as web servers is not a big stretch, just the stretch to envisage it not on any local hard disk.  But we do not encourage any cavalier thoughts here.  This should be a last resort web server access method, perhaps for when &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the web server is unresponsive for those other methods above &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>tweaks you want to make at the web server in the period before &#8230;\n<ol>\n<li>Apache (httpd service) &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>MySql (mysqld service)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; start up\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a look at ourVirtualMachineNameLink -&gt; Getting Started (tab) -&gt; Basic Tasks (sub-tab) usage (and often we never need to venture anywhere else within vSphere&#8217;s much much larger set of functionalities) with today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/vsphere_power_off_on.pdf\" title=\"Click picture\">PDF slideshow<\/a> presentation of us, having already logged in &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Power off the virtual machine<\/li>\n<li>Power on the virtual machine<\/li>\n<li>Log out<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b><i>Did you know?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p id=pmwin>Recently, was it 2021 <font size=1>(today is 11\/06\/2022)<\/font>, VMWare vSphere Web Client dropped its Adobe Flash integrations, and so, at least for a <font size=1>(free)<\/font> single web server macOS or Mac OS X usage, was effectively dropped too.  For us, that meant <a target=_blank title='Windows Power Management' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/power_management_windows.gif'>turning to Windows<\/a> for continued VMWare vSphere Web Client &#8220;Power Management&#8221; support for our Dedicated CentOS Linux WHM cPanel Apache\/MySql\/PHP web server.  It remains invaluable for most situations where graphical cPanel and ssh cannot help, and then there is the great <a target=_blank title='Crazy Domains' href='http:\/\/www.crazydomains.com.au'>Crazy Domains<\/a> to turn to.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d46363' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d46363\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/access\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d46363' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you manage an Apache web server, you may well find cPanel a big enough topic. 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