ESXi Embedded Host Client v4

VMware updated the ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling to version 4. Here is the change log for this version, and older:

New Updates in 4.0

Host

• Ability to change host acceptance level
• Ability to edit lock down exception users
• Ability to edit system swap settings

VM

• VM list has been optimized for performance, reducing data download by a factor of 5.
• Ability to edit VM advance options
• Ability to edit VM video adapter settings
• Add a PCI pass through device (unable to remove device though)
• SRIOV support for Network card devices
• Ability to change browser console keyboard layout (Japanese and German are the currently supported layouts)
• Cmd+a or Ctrl+a to select all VMs in list
• Soft-power off and reset if Tools is installed is now supported

General

• New Tools and links menu under Help
• Update mechanism can now take a URL or data store path to an metadata zipfile, allowing to update ESXi itself
• Localization and internationalization (French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Chinese (traditional and simplified) and Korean
• Ability to disable session timeout
• A huge number of bugfixes and minor improvements

New in version 3.0

•  VM
  
  • Answer question support
    
  • Upgrade virtual hardware to the latest supported by the host
    
  • Hot edit VM settings
    
  • VM table column configuration (show/hide columns), remembered across browser refresh
    
  • VM startup/shutdown priority (simple increase/decrease)
    
• Host
  
  • Change host power management policy, advanced power configuration
    
  • Generate IP/FQDN certificate signing request and import new certificate
    
  •  Join a host to an active directory domain controller
    
• Storage functionality
  
  • Disk device partition editor
    
  • Adapter rescan for new LUNs
    
  • Disk device rescan for new VMFS volumes
    
  • Clear a disk's partition table
    
  • Disk device partition diagram
    
    • Increase datastore size onto disk that already contains a partition table
      

In-app update tool: provide a URL to a new version of the VIB, refresh the browser, et voila!

• Performance charts
  
  • Ability to change performance chart colors (two choices: default VMware colors and high contrast colors)
    
  • Added Network and Disk charts to Host performance UI
    
  • Improve VM performance UI, still missing some charts
    
  • Improved performance UI on tablets
    
    • Always hide the top legend in the chart
      
    •  Hide the focus widget to increase vertical space
      
• General
  
  • For tabbed UIs, the selected tab is remembered as you navigate around the UI to avoid un-necessary clicks
    
  • Better scrolling performance on tablets (tested on iPad)
    
  • Hide-able navigator allowing more space on tablets
    
  • Shortcut buttons to Host, Host Manage, Host Monitor, VMs, Storage, Networking when navigator is collapsed
    
  • Improved Actions menu behavior on tablets:
    
    • Menu navigation no longer hides the actions menu
      
    • Added an explicit close button on actions menus
      
    • A second press on the Actions button will close the menu
      
• Bugfixes
  
  • VM table sizing with small number of VMs
    
  • In-browser consoles:
    
    • Will now attempt to reconnect when losing a connection to a powered on VM
      
    • Reverting to a powered-on snapshot while a console is open to that VM will reconnect the console
      

Previous Version

• VM Snapshot support
  
• In-browser VM console full screen support
  
• In-browser VM console 'shrink' support
  
• Double click title bar to enlarge dialogs and wizards
  
• Alt + drag in a dialog or wizard to resize
  
• Completed file browser (copy/move/delete/create directory/upload/download)
  
• Right click on VMX file in browser to register VM
  
• Improved host performance monitoring UI
  
• Composite CPU/memory figure
  
• Locale override (we still only support en-US at this stage)
  
• Customizable session timeout
  
• Mount/create NFS datastores
  
• Create VMFS datastore (currently only on disks that don't have a partition table)
  
• Extend VMFS datastore (currently only onto disks that don't have a partition table)
  
• Mount/Unmount VMFS datastore
  
• Firewall ruleset listing (currently read-only)
  
• Mac OS guest creation has been enabled
  
• Many bug fixes, too many to list individually, but here are a couple of major ones:
  
  • Localization on ESXi 5.5 should be working now
    
  • We have removed pt-br, so you shouldn't have issues if you use that locale now
    

It can be found here: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client