Recently I migrated
from old to new laptop, which is in majority cases laborious job. After few
weeks, I realized I missed to install VMWare vSphere Client software to access
ESXi server.
Somehow I could find
that I had vSphere client version 5.5 in my previous laptop, and I just
installed latest "vSphere client version 5.5 U3". Then when I tried
to login, it stuck on "Updating" popup screen which finally failed to
do any progress with multiple tries. Well, I could not understand what it tries
to do --- The required client support files need to be retrieved from the
server "vsphereclient.vmware.com" and installed. Click Run the
installer or Save the installer???
I tried to google
solution, but could not find anything useful. I tried uninstall and install
latest version 6.0, but could not solve it. This way, I wasted my almost 5
hours. Suddenly I realized, I should check version compatibility between ESXi
server and vSphere client. So I searched and found this url - http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php.
Wow, finally I could fix this problem in just few minutes by installing VMWare
vSphere client version compatible to ESXi server 5.0 version.
Lesson Learned:
While installing any
software products, if we see installation problems or it reacts weirdly, then
we should not forget to refer its version compatibility matrix... :-)
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