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Where to download the latest vSphere Client?

I just spent the last 90 minutes hunting the vmware.com web site for the latest x64 Windows7 vSphere client. VMware has lots of things you can download prominently displayed … just not the latest vsphere client.

It still bothers me that I’m required to run MS-Windows to use the mandatory client.

In the end, I had to select a new download of ESXi, agree to give my first born to them, sign a contract, then they showed a list of about 5 more downloads – including the damn vsphere client that I wanted. While I was there, I grabbed the 4.0 to 4.1 ESXi upgrade package.

For the last 2 years, ESXi has been rock solid … until about 10 days ago. That’s when a 32-bit Linux VPN server stopped responding. The other machines are available and working, just that one is not. Got an error trying to use the v4.0 vsphere client to connect.

The error that the old vsphere client, v4.x, displayed was error parsing clients.xml This error happened on both x64 and x32 machines running either Win7 or WinXP. Basically, only the unsupported ssh login was available. According to the google results, a new vsphere client will fix everything. I hope it does.

I can’t wait for KVM to be as good.