Anyone hear when VMWare is going to come out with a OSX VCenter client?

pcgizzmo

It's taken them forever. They already have a VMWare view client but why not VCenter?

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echo465

Because there's not enough demand for it and the dev resources would be better used elsewhere? You've already got a Windows server to run vCenter Server, you could RDP to it and run the vCenter client. Or Thinapp the Windows version and run it from your view desktop.

jibbajabba

There are always 'ways'

vSphere Client on Mac OS X

scott28tt

The View Client is for users rather than administrators, so there would be sufficient demand for a Mac-based client. You can already manage VMs using the vSphere Web Client - Firefox is one of the supported browsers. VMware do seem to be making a greater shift towards browser-based administration, I would expect to see a more feature-rich Web Client for vSphere in the future...