VMWare vSphere Web Client Primer Tutorial
If you manage an Apache web server, you may well find cPanel a big enough topic. As a layer on top of such a web server’s more conventional access methods (you can read about at Web Server Access Primer Tutorial) …
- ssh (command line) and sftp (file transfer) access to web server … and …
- cPanel web server management
… there is provided by many web hosters (ours being Crazy Domains) functionality to power off/on virtual web servers, ours at rjmprogramming.com.au being a VMWare one, called, for us, the “vSphere Web Client”. If you’ve used Virtual Machines “terrestrially” (our thought bubble description of Virtual Machines just using the hard disk resources of a laptop or PC) to think of them as web servers is not a big stretch, just the stretch to envisage it not on any local hard disk. But we do not encourage any cavalier thoughts here. This should be a last resort web server access method, perhaps for when …
- the web server is unresponsive for those other methods above … or …
- tweaks you want to make at the web server in the period before …
- Apache (httpd service) … and …
- MySql (mysqld service)
… start up
Take a look at ourVirtualMachineNameLink -> Getting Started (tab) -> Basic Tasks (sub-tab) usage (and often we never need to venture anywhere else within vSphere’s much much larger set of functionalities) with today’s PDF slideshow presentation of us, having already logged in …
- Power off the virtual machine
- Power on the virtual machine
- Log out
Did you know?
Recently, was it 2021 (today is 11/06/2022), VMWare vSphere Web Client dropped its Adobe Flash integrations, and so, at least for a (free) single web server macOS or Mac OS X usage, was effectively dropped too. For us, that meant turning to Windows for continued VMWare vSphere Web Client “Power Management” support for our Dedicated CentOS Linux WHM cPanel Apache/MySql/PHP web server. It remains invaluable for most situations where graphical cPanel and ssh cannot help, and then there is the great Crazy Domains to turn to.
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