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It would be nice is ESXi came with an ultra thin vsphere client that could be downloaded from the host directly.
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It would be nice is ESXi came with an ultra thin vsphere client that could be downloaded from the host directly.

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Not required anymore.....web client in 6.0!<br />
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C# client is dead! RIP!<br />
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No longer being developed!
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Not required anymore.....web client in 6.0!

C# client is dead! RIP!

No longer being developed!

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I heard that esxi 6 is due out Q4 is this true?
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I heard that esxi 6 is due out Q4 is this true?

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I'm sorry I cannot possibly comment, as under NDA.<br />
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Keep an eye on my Twitter feed!
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I'm sorry I cannot possibly comment, as under NDA.

Keep an eye on my Twitter feed!

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LOL!!! &nbsp; Far Enough :o)
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I understand that ESXi does not contain the install files for the vsphere client in order to keep the install size small and directs people to the internet. This is fine but I have run into problems where a host does not have access to the internet and if you do not have the vpshere client files else where you are up a creak. <br />
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Can a newer vSphere client (5.5) manage ESXi host of a different version like 5.1 or 5.0. I seem to run into the problem where each host wants to be managed by the vsphere client version is matches... Any way around this?
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I understand that ESXi does not contain the install files for the vsphere client in order to keep the install size small and directs people to the internet. This is fine but I have run into problems where a host does not have access to the internet and if you do not have the vpshere client files else where you are up a creak. 

Can a newer vSphere client (5.5) manage ESXi host of a different version like 5.1 or 5.0. I seem to run into the problem where each host wants to be managed by the vsphere client version is matches... Any way around this?

ESXi 5.x VSphere Client Download From Host

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.