Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by sofixa on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:05PM
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> The first major VMware version which does not support the installable desktop client has a plenty good enough HTML5 version of the web client
That's false. The old thick client stopped working with 6.0, which got a very poor, limited and extremely buggy HTML5 client in one of its latest updates. 6.5, latest update, has a somewhat usable but still limited ( missing features) HTML5 UI ( funnily enough some new features were only in the HTML5 UI, while some others were only in the Flash version). The first version that had a fully usable for everything HTML5 UI is 6.7 Update 3, which came out a few months ago.
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by jasomill on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:28AM
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On the bright side, unless VMware's interoperability database is mistaken, vCenter 6.7 U3 can manage hosts back to ESXi 6.0, so this is at least "retrospectively true" unless you're stuck on an earlier vCenter version.
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:44PM
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I mean, perhaps you use features I just haven't had to, but I don't recall any time in the 6.0-6.5 era needing something the HTML5 client couldn't do servicably.
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by gavindean90 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:26PM
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I've seen it mostly in advanced VM management like weird drive configurations.
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by hackmiester on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:08PM
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iirc, OVA deployment was unavailable, then buggy.
The first major VMware version which does not support the installable desktop client has a plenty good enough HTML5 version of the web client. So either/or, you should be good to control your hypervisors without Flash.
And at worst, you shouldn't need to use a Flash-based UI to upgrade VCSA or your hypervisors.