VMware vSphere 6.0 is available exclusively on the vSphere ESXi hypervisor architecture. ESXi is the latest hypervisor architecture from VMware and, as of the vSphere 4.1 release, VMware’s recommended best practice when deploying VMware vSphere. Users can upgrade to ESXi (from ESX) as part of an upgrade to vSphere 6.0. Oct 31, 2017  VMware vSphere Client for Windows is officially dead for vSphere 6.5 but for earlier versions you can still use it. Many VMware and IT consultants are still using it when they visit their clients on older vSphere infrastructures. You perhaps still prefer the old vSphere Windows client for Free ESXi. The vSphere Client is a Windows program that you can use to configure the host and to operate its virtual machines. You can download vSphere Client from any host.

VMware's download site is very frustrating. I am unable to find where the download link to the vSphere client is.

Did they rename this tool? How can I get it?

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I found someone's blog who had the same problem. He points to hardcoded links to VMware's clients:(And another blog)

vSphere v6.0

• VMware vSphere Client v6.0: VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-2502222.exe

vSphere v5.5

• VMware vSphere Client v5.5.0: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1281650.exe
• Download vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1618071.exe
• Download vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1b: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1880841.exe
• Download vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1993072.exe

vSphere v5.1

• VMware vSphere Client v5.1: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-786111.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client 5.1.0a: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-860230.exe (seems to be not available 7-17-2014)
  
• VMware vSphere Client 5.1.0b: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-941893.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client 5.1 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-1064113.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client 5.1 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-1235233.exe
  

vSphere v5.0

• VMware vSphere Client v5.0: VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-455964.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v5.0 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-623373.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v5.0 Update 1b: VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-804277.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v5.0 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-913577.exe
  

vSphere v4.1

• VMware vSphere Client v4.1: VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v4.1 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-345043.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v4.1 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-491557.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v4.1 Update 3: VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-799345.exe
  
• VMware vSphere Client v4.1 Update 3a: VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-925676.exe
  

Download links of all versions of VMware vSphere Clients was officially provided by VMware since 2014-12-15.

If you have installed VMware ESXi server, you can manage the ESXi server using vSphere client. vSphere client works only on Windows host. If you don’t have vSphere client installed, download it from your local VMware Server home page. i.e go to http://{your-vmware-server-ip} to download vSphere client.

Download Vsphere Client Free

Vsphere Client 6.0 Download Windows 10

In addition to the desktop client there is also a vSphere web client available (at least since 5.5).

Beware that in the future (past version 6.0) the desktop client might be discontinued and the vSphere web client might become the default to interact with the servers. At least according to this blog post from Dennis Lu who's the product manager for the vSphere web client.

Vsphere Client 6.5 Download

Download Vsphere Client Windows 10

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