VMware has released their VMware vSphere Client for iPad and it’s available for free at the iTunes App store now. The VMware vSphere Client for iPad is a companion interface to the traditional vSphere client, optimized for viewing and managing your vSphere environment on the go. With vSphere Client for iPad you can view key performance metrics and perform essential tasks in a simplified interface from anywhere. The iPad Client is not meant to be functionally equivalent with the existing Windows client, but rather to perform the most common 80% of vSphere admin’s tasks. Virtual machines can be started, stopped and suspended. vSphere hosts can be rebooted or put into maintenance mode.
Features
- Search for vSphere hosts and virtual machines in your vSphere environment
Monitor the performance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines
- Manage virtual machines with the ability to start, stop and suspend
- View and restore your virtual machines’ snapshots
- Reboot vSphere hosts or put them into maintenance mode
- Diagnose vSphere hosts and virtual machines using built-in ping and trace route tools
Requirements
vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) virtual appliance available from the VMware Labs: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcma
- Network connection to the vCMA virtual appliance; can use built-in VPN client
- VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter Server
- iPad ;-)
