vSphere Client Downloads

by | Sep 9, 2014 | Technology | 206 comments

I’ve never been sure why VMware makes it so hard to download the vSphere client, but I needed it recently for writing my article on installing the vSphere 5.5 client on a domain controller. To reproduce the error to get a screenshot, I needed a copy of the vSphere 5.5 client installer. Of course, VMware tried to do some kind of security through obscurity thing that leaves me browsing to an ESXi box and then clicking the link and downloading the client from their website.

To make this easier for the rest of the populous to access, I’ve decided to write this short post with a direct download link to the vSphere 5.5 client installer as well as ways to download the vsphere client for other versions as well. If anything is missing, let me know and I’ll get it posted.

I intend to update this article with the latest versions as they come out.

VMware vSphere Client 6 versions

Download VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 3: VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-5112508.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 2a: VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-4437566.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-3562874.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-3016447.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 6.0: VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-2502222.exe

VMware vSphere Client 5.5 versions

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5. Update 3: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-3024345.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1993072.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1b: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1880841.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update C: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1745234.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1a: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1746248.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1618071.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1281650.exe

VMware vSphere Client 5.1 versions

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.1 Update 2a: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-1880906.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.1 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-1471691.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.1 Update 1b: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-1235233.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.1 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-1064113.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.1.0b: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-941893.exe

Download VMware vSphere Client 5.1: VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-786111.exe

 

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that VMware is only making it harder for their end users (systems administrators) to do their jobs?

206 Comments

    • FilterPunk on September 24, 2014 at 1:28 AM

      I have been searchin for about 5 min now on VMware sites without success.
      Thanks for the links!

      Reply
  2. Lannar on February 7, 2014 at 1:41 PM

    My theory is they just want people to start using the web client interface.

    Thanks for the link.

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on February 7, 2014 at 3:03 PM

      Yea, they’re really pushing people away from using the free product. It’s sad when you look at the impact that would have on small business. And glad I could help with the link.

      Reply
    • chad on April 12, 2016 at 2:21 PM

      which breaks with every browser update….

      Reply
  3. chris lock on April 14, 2014 at 2:42 AM

    thank you thank you thank you

    Reply
  4. Dylan Kenneally on May 7, 2014 at 7:01 PM

    Thanks for posting the links, I managed to waste a half hour on VMwares’ site trying to find them.

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on May 8, 2014 at 6:47 AM

      Been there done that for sure. I got to thinking about it and my guess is that they also do it so they can track usage patterns, etc. for marketing. Glad it helped.

      Reply
      • Nick on September 29, 2014 at 9:19 PM

        Thanks man, I actually found where to download the error than got Error Processing Request… Thanks vmware!

        Reply
  5. Ken Sawyer on May 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM

    Your help is greatly appreciated! I also don’t appreciate VMWare’s choice of obscuring this product.

    Reply
  6. jayabaski on May 15, 2014 at 1:30 AM

    Thank you for the link

    Reply
  7. tawil on May 18, 2014 at 8:20 PM

    Thanks for the link.. Any idea for Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) by Symantec?

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on May 18, 2014 at 9:00 PM

      Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have VCS. Glad to help on the VMware link though.

      Reply
      • tawil on May 18, 2014 at 9:35 PM

        I unsuccessful to login it because the IP Address / Name section is not automatically detected. What is the cause of the problem?

        I’m using the Windows Server 2012.

        Reply
        • Joseph Turley on May 19, 2014 at 2:23 PM

          It doesn’t automatically detect the IP address or login information of your VMware host. You’re using ESXi 5.5?

          Reply
          • tawil on May 19, 2014 at 8:12 PM

            Sorry, I’m still new in this VMware. Do I need to Install VMware Vcenter Server instead of ESXi 5.5? What is the purposes of ESXI 5.5?

          • Joseph Turley on May 19, 2014 at 10:43 PM

            Sorry man, those are questions I’m not going to be able to answer simply here. I’d advise looking to Google for any number of sites to help you figure out how to put together a VMware virtualization environment using ESXi…

  8. Jayrom on May 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM

    Thanks a lot for these links. I am struggling hard to install the vsphere client 5.5 which is supposed to be free to use with 64Gb RAM on host system..
    You save my time really, but the update to 5.5 forced me to download an extra file to actually downgrade to 5.1!! And this so told free licence keeps warning that my system has more than 32Gb of RAM!!
    Well I can confirm here vsphere licensing is a pain in the A**.
    I don’t want to spend hours on learning, sutdying this obscure license system.
    The vm soft is rather easy to use but why is there no clear price, download, licence..?
    Ok to pay one licence but then please with just few clicks to spend on this stuff.

    Reply
  9. agorian on May 26, 2014 at 8:46 PM

    Thank you for the links!

    Reply
  10. dave on May 29, 2014 at 7:42 AM

    Good grief! Thank you, sir!

    Reply
  11. Joe on June 3, 2014 at 9:45 PM

    Thanks!!!

    Reply
  12. Nuno Carvalho on June 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM

    You just saved my night, that download site is like a spaghetti, but less tastier…. 😛

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on June 14, 2014 at 4:14 PM

      *laugh* That’s a great description. 🙂

      Reply
  13. Dean on June 17, 2014 at 3:18 AM

    You’re a legend! Desperately needed this for my visualization unit of my Diploma.

    Reply
  14. Larry on June 27, 2014 at 4:37 AM

    Thanks for the links, I just updated my primary work Windows machine and gave the vmWare download site a big WTF when trying to find the vSphere client installer. 🙂

    Reply
  15. Dano on July 1, 2014 at 12:15 PM

    Holy Balls, they make it hard to find shiz!

    Thank you, thank you…

    Reply
  17. Chihab JEBBARI on July 15, 2014 at 6:12 AM

    Thanks a lot for the links! I’ve been searching for this vSphere Client for a while. I don’t understand why VMWare are just making things harder for us.
    Thanks again

    Reply
  18. Harsh on July 16, 2014 at 9:32 PM

    Thanks a lot Joseph.

    Reply
  19. Paulo on July 22, 2014 at 6:44 PM

    Tks a lot, very helpful! (from BR!)

    Reply
  20. Laughingman24 on July 27, 2014 at 9:47 AM

    thanks for the links vmware the monster doesnt like the comsumer so they strong arm there products

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on July 28, 2014 at 6:10 AM

      So it would appear. They still have the greatest virtualization software available, by a long shot. I just hope they don’t lose site of small business.

      Reply
  22. Julian on August 18, 2014 at 12:14 PM

    Thank You very much for the link.

    It would have been next to impossible otherwise

    Reply
  23. Chad Wright on August 19, 2014 at 5:16 AM

    Thank you sir! I’m comfortable using putty, but there comes a point where I would like to see the gui every now and then. I am definitely going to bookmark this page and share it with others.

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on August 19, 2014 at 7:22 AM

      Happy to have helped Chad. Thanks for commenting and sharing!

      Reply
  24. jono on August 19, 2014 at 6:06 PM

    well done. this is awesome. have struggled for ages trying to find the client on the vmware site. thank you for this.

    Reply
  25. Eric on August 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM

    Thank you!! Been searching for these for a little while

    Reply
  26. Kasper on August 26, 2014 at 1:38 PM

    Thanks for your help!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on August 26, 2014 at 8:17 PM

      You bet guys. Thank you both for taking the time to share your gratitude!

      Reply
  27. Hemal on September 8, 2014 at 12:06 AM

    Thanks a Ton for sharing!

    Reply
  28. Anderson on September 19, 2014 at 12:56 AM

    Thank you a billion times!!! It is soo frustating

    Reply
  29. josh on September 20, 2014 at 9:12 AM

    you are a saint. thank you so much for posting these. great speed, too! was hitting 7MB/s

    saved me several minutes of trying to remember my vmware login and navigating through that horrid page

    Reply
  30. Marcio on September 24, 2014 at 5:25 AM

    Thanks for the links

    Reply
  31. ihsan on September 27, 2014 at 5:46 AM

    hello sir Thanks for the link , sir i have one problem with my 2 standalone VM servers where vm server 5.1 was installed , i guess few days back it get the update now i cant access both the servers , when i try to connect through my vm client i get this error message ” An unknown connection error occurred. (The client could not send a complete request to the server. (The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send ” i also try to connect through Https: but no luck it also dnt work , search google a lot but no luck if you can help

    Reply
    • EdwardTS on January 5, 2015 at 1:14 PM

      the problem connecting after the update is likely the updated security and certificate info the newer versions use. if you are trying to run the VMware client on a machine less than Vista (XP, WinSvr2003, etc. then they won’t be able to connect – At All. you need to use a newer operating system to run the client and connect.

      Reply
  32. Mike on September 29, 2014 at 12:54 PM

    Thanks for links! Saved us a tone of time.

    Reply
  33. Conway on October 2, 2014 at 11:39 AM

    Thanks! Saved my day.

    Reply
  34. prathyusha on October 9, 2014 at 2:35 AM

    thank you..!

    Reply
  35. laranj1nha on October 13, 2014 at 5:01 AM

    Thanks, Joseph! Appreciate it!

    Reply
  36. Peter on October 14, 2014 at 4:56 AM

    Thank you Joseph, please apply for a job at VMWare and learn them how to help their customers 😉

    Reply
  37. Dave C on October 17, 2014 at 8:51 PM

    Thank you for posting the vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 download link! It was refreshing to know I wasn’t losing my touch and not the only one unable to locate it on the VMware website.

    Keep up the good work, Joseph, and thank you once again for saving my Friday evening and my sanity 🙂

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on October 18, 2014 at 12:03 PM

      You bet! Always happy to help a fellow IT services guy. Enjoy.

      Reply
  38. Jeff Gratton on October 20, 2014 at 7:37 AM

    One finds solace where he can. I found some here, seeing that I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t figure how to download a simple client app for their products ! It’s “funny” the first few minutes, and gets old quite fast.

    Thank you so much for your help. Now you’ll get me hooked to your blog 🙂

    –Jeff

    Reply
  39. Tomas on October 21, 2014 at 10:07 AM

    Thank you very much !!!!

    Reply
  40. Ashley White on October 22, 2014 at 8:07 PM

    what a bunch of flankers… to make it so hard to download their stupid software… only need it for a course… would never us it my work environment if this is how they run their business. Make me waste half my day just to get a trial of it… no thanks.. but thanks to Joseph 🙂

    Reply
  41. Phil Saltsman on October 22, 2014 at 9:38 PM

    Had to use google to find their free client installer. LOL thank you kindly 🙂

    Reply
  42. Dave Stott on October 26, 2014 at 5:55 PM

    Thanks for this Jospeh, as a heavy user of vCenter i still like vsphere as a backup incase vCenter has issues….. Agree that i’m not sure why VMware make it so hard to find the client!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on October 26, 2014 at 6:04 PM

      And frankly, there are quite a few things that the web client can’t even come close to matching on the thick client. I hope it doesn’t go away too soon!

      Reply
      • James Cardwell on October 29, 2014 at 12:37 PM

        Thanks for the download links. Also as an FYI, I have the IBM 5.5u1 customized version of ESXi. Even after updating with Update Manager to 5.5u2, they still report as IBM 5.5u1 customized and the link to download Vsphere still points to the 5.5u1 version of Vsphere.

        Reply
  43. Bill C on October 30, 2014 at 10:56 AM

    This is such a service … I spent too much time looking for the download link for the client, not to be found…why doesn’t VMware do the same thing ??

    trying to save time getting sw prior to building the box…almost gave up, figuring I would get the client by logging into the host, but now you have saved time, and I will have everything I need for a (hopefully) successful build (with a 60 day life, I understand)….

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on October 30, 2014 at 12:16 PM

      I know there is an internal push at VMware to get this more accessible, but who knows. Until then, I’ll keep doing what I’m doing to make this accessible. Glad to have helped you in your day!

      Reply
  44. Pierre on November 4, 2014 at 1:45 AM

    Words cannot express everything, a sincere thank you for the links @Joseph.

    Reply
  45. Jerry on November 12, 2014 at 7:21 AM

    Thanks so much. I’ve searched VMWare site for other things in the past, so I know what kind of time you just saved me. Much appreciated.

    Reply
  46. Dave on November 16, 2014 at 3:38 PM

    Add me to the growing ranks of people saying THANK YOU for the link!!!

    Reply
  47. Mark C. on November 18, 2014 at 5:25 PM

    Thanks a lot for the links. I always stumble around looking for it the once-in-a-blue-moon that I need it.

    Has anyone considered the fact that VMware revenue from services is climbing and revenue from product sales is falling? At least as a percentage of total revenue. Google for the quarterly VMware reports to see the trend.

    I wonder if the services side of VMware is becoming the focus of the company. They seem to be handing Microsoft the hypervisor market on a platter. I’ve not seen the likes of it before. When Hyper-V was first released I tried it, rolled my eyes in disbelief it was so bad, and moved on quite content with VMware. Seems that’s changed.

    Thoughts?

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on November 18, 2014 at 7:06 PM

      Mark,

      I definitely see that not only VMvware, but almost all companies are focusing on services and recurring revenue. I believe that this trend as well as the trend toward cloud computing will eventually hit a shift similar to those described in Clayton Christensen’s book, The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. In the book, he highlights the recurring shifts from centralization to decentralization and back again. At some point, these companies will realize that their products need work, and customers will once again want to bring things in house for performance and cost saving reasons. VMware probably believes that they are so far ahead of the curve that they can sacrifice some of that lead to grab services revenues for the short to mid term. It’s certainly an interesting game and I’m interested to see how it plays out.

      Reply
      • Mark Co. on December 17, 2014 at 2:36 PM

        I’m really cozying up to the free Windows Server Core Hyper-V – as hard as it is to admit it. At least for Windows VMs it’s easier to manage. And there’s NO difficulty getting the management client!

        Reply
        • Joseph Turley on December 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM

          *laugh* Absolutely! I’ve tried warming up to Hyper-V and I do use it from time to time, but the challenges of AD integrated authentication make it unpleasant when managing multiple environments. Another iteration or two and I hope it’s what we all want it to be.

          Reply
          • Mark C. on December 17, 2014 at 2:40 PM

            But for single hosts or non-AD environments (yes, I said non-AD) that just need to run a few Windows VMs – particularly on older hardware … you get the idea.

  48. Jimmy R on November 20, 2014 at 2:40 AM

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  49. odd user on November 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM

    Thanks!! Saved me from going merry go rounds at the vmware website. One would think that their insistence on registering for the free downloads would make things easier….but no.

    Reply
  50. Anonymous on December 3, 2014 at 3:44 AM

    Thanks a ton! You saved me, I was going crazy on Vmware site.

    Reply
  51. Vic on December 3, 2014 at 5:54 AM

    Thanks for the links, VMWare makes it impossible to find in their lists. As i need it to connect to the cloud from someone else i was only needing the client but VMWare still wanted me to sign in and on and agree to lots of stuff only to find or better yet, not to find the client needed. Please keep up your site, your’re doing a good job here!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on December 3, 2014 at 7:15 AM

      Thanks guys! I couldn’t agree with you more. Glad to have been at service.

      Reply
      • Rick Wilson on December 12, 2014 at 5:12 PM

        Thanks for the links. No more using the web interface. Yipee!

        Reply
        • Joseph Turley on December 13, 2014 at 6:33 AM

          Unfortunately from what I’ve heard, the web interface is here to stay and the Windows client is not. Kind of a shame from a performance standpoint since that web interface just isn’t nearly as responsive.

          Reply
  52. gurkan on December 13, 2014 at 6:58 AM

    Thank you, even with an account, vmware’s website is a damn chaos..

    Reply
  53. Matt on December 17, 2014 at 2:12 PM

    Thanks for the link. It’s still difficult to find this client on the VMWare site.

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on December 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM

      Agreed. They’ve made it a touch easier in the past few months, but still WAY too complicated. Hard to see it getting any better as they grow.

      Reply
  54. Miguel Rico on December 29, 2014 at 3:46 PM

    Thanks for this, it is very helpful
    Regards

    Reply
  55. Miami_T on January 2, 2015 at 1:03 AM

    You can always find link to latest client for your esxi server with entering URL in browser http://your-server.

    Reply
  56. conair on January 15, 2015 at 12:22 PM

    Thanks a lot! It is really very helpful

    Reply
  57. Joey C on January 15, 2015 at 1:57 PM

    What is so difficult about downloading the client. When you install vsphere it is hosted on the http site of the vsphere server. Easy Peazy.

    Reply
  58. Timmy Jose on January 29, 2015 at 5:41 AM

    If you have an ESX Server in a local network handy, you can just do the following:

    httpt://

    and you get an option to download the correct version of the vSphere client.

    Reply
    • Timmy Jose on January 29, 2015 at 5:43 AM

      I think the site’s gobbling up links, so here’s the address again:

      https

      and then download it from the link provided there. Super fast as well as the correct version matching that of the ESX Server/vCenter.

      Reply
  59. amin on January 30, 2015 at 1:37 PM

    Thank Man for your help!

    Reply
  60. Ronald Lind on February 4, 2015 at 3:10 PM

    This is a dream!! Thank you so much. You don’t know how long …. well I guess you do know 🙂 I couldn’t find it. This is a life saver to say the least. Thank you Joseph.

    Reply
  61. Aldo Jamorol on February 11, 2015 at 5:30 PM

    Thanks for making this available. Saved me a lot of time going through the vmware links.

    Reply
  62. Jameson on February 11, 2015 at 7:07 PM

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    Reply
  64. Nigel Newallo on February 25, 2015 at 8:25 AM

    Thanks you very much for this Joseph. Wish I found this page sooner and hadn’t wasted so much time registering on the vmware site to still not be able to download this.

    Reply
  65. Gal on March 12, 2015 at 5:05 AM

    Thanks ! you just saved me a ton of time lurking through VMWARE download web

    Reply
  67. Dominik on March 17, 2015 at 6:02 AM

    Thanks!

    Reply
  68. Alex Correa on March 25, 2015 at 8:21 PM

    Hi Joseph,

    Thanks a million for share the link, by any chance do you have the ESXi 5.5 software?

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on March 25, 2015 at 8:31 PM

      I can include a link, but it requires you to be logged into the myvmware.com site (free registration I believe). The direct download link includes a hash that I believe is specific to my account. In any case, the direct ESXi 5.5 download link is

      Reply
  69. Phillip on March 26, 2015 at 4:09 PM

    Is this client backward compatible with ESXi 4, if not I will just use the client that came with the platform.

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on March 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM

      It is backward compatible in a way. If you install this one and try to manage an older version, it will download and install the compatibility portions to allow you to manage any of them. That’s what I do.

      Reply
  70. vivek kumar on April 1, 2015 at 2:25 PM

    Thanks a lot for the link 😀

    Reply
  71. Scott on April 6, 2015 at 8:41 AM

    I think the HP and VMWare sites must come from the same source: Hell.
    Thank you so much for the links!

    Reply
  72. Veera on April 13, 2015 at 3:17 AM

    Thank you so much man. Really helpful.

    Reply
  73. wandonr on April 28, 2015 at 9:43 AM

    Thanks for the link. Very helpful.

    Reply
  75. Max Anonymous on May 10, 2015 at 11:24 PM

    Thanks for posting the links.

    Reply
  76. SHAIBAN on May 20, 2015 at 1:38 AM

    hi jo,
    thanks for the link. made life simple and easy.
    kindly advise on following:
    i am planning to deploy windows 2012, and use esxi (free version) as the hypervisor.
    i cant make up my mind whether i should go for esxi 5.5 or 6.0.
    also, is vsphere client 5.5 compatible with esxi 6.0?

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on May 20, 2015 at 7:09 AM

      I would go ahead and use ESXi 6 personally. I just upgraded my environment to ESXi 6 yesterday. Once you use the 5.5 client with a 6.0 environment, it will upgrade the client for you so you should be good to go. Enjoy!

      Reply
      • SHAIBAN on May 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM

        thanks for the sharing your thoughts.

        Reply
  77. Ned on June 2, 2015 at 9:55 PM

    You, sir, are a freaking stud. I was dreading trying to find this download after I installed 5.5 today because I know how they work and know how hard it was going to be to find. Man, back in the day they were pretty cool with their vmware products but now…. holy monkey they’ve gone all crazy and..shhhtuff. Thanks for the links, I’ll remember you. 😉 and in a good way too!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on June 2, 2015 at 10:07 PM

      Glad to hear it Ned! Put it to good use.

      Reply
  78. kumar on June 5, 2015 at 12:03 AM

    HI mate,

    DO you have Vmware vcenter for window/Linux since my connection are getting broken through VMware sites.

    Thanks
    Kumar

    Reply
  79. Bryan on June 8, 2015 at 8:08 AM

    Thanks for the links! I was also frustrated by VMWare’s site.

    Reply
  80. kaiu on July 20, 2015 at 2:02 PM

    Unbelivable! second time this week, fourth time this year. they must be have a dozen guys there trying to look this blog like a saviour from heaven. you are the man!

    Reply
    • James on September 4, 2015 at 10:36 AM

      Nice that page seems to reference everything, the latest VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-2502222.exe is out!

      Reply
  82. daniele on July 29, 2015 at 12:20 PM

    man tanks for your multiple links

    Reply
  83. Ronei on July 30, 2015 at 1:52 PM

    Thanks for the links!

    Reply
  84. JS on September 6, 2015 at 9:16 AM

    Just wanted to say thank you – i continually get lost in the Stupid VMWare site, even though we are entitled to download the software. VERY ANNOYING. Thanks again for making my life easier!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on September 6, 2015 at 9:59 AM

      Thanks guys! Glad to have been of service.

      Reply
  85. Ahmad Maroof on September 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM

    Thank you Joseph For the link. Just want to add is there any way I can use vsphere client on ubuntu.

    Thanks Again!!!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on September 9, 2015 at 3:05 PM

      You’re quite welcome! Without emulating, I don’t believe there is a way to use that C client on Ubuntu. I think that’s why they went to a web based vCenter server.

      Reply
  86. Chuck Zitting on September 24, 2015 at 4:43 PM

    Awesome! Thank you Joseph!

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on September 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM

      *laugh* Nice Chuck! I told you this post was popular. 😉

      Reply
      • Jerry on September 28, 2015 at 7:45 AM

        Thanks for the links; saved me considerable time.

        Reply
  87. Alex on September 29, 2015 at 11:51 AM

    Thank you for the links! Saved lots of round trips through vmware’s website to look for vsphere’s download link.

    On the other hand I have to say I am happy that I am not the only one having trouble finding the download link! At some point I started to think that I cannot browse a web page as other people do! 🙂

    Cheers!

    Reply
  88. Graham Skinner on September 30, 2015 at 5:48 AM

    Thanks very much Joseph. Trying to find this on the vmware website is next to impossible!!

    Reply
  89. Joey on October 8, 2015 at 7:12 AM

    Mr Turley:
    Thanks for contributing these links and for facilitating the absence of access to this free software. Much appreciated.

    Reply
  90. pa on October 20, 2015 at 1:40 AM

    Hi, thank you very much 🙂

    Reply
  91. Andrew on November 2, 2015 at 3:00 AM

    Thank you so much. A really useful resource!

    Reply
  92. Admiral Awesome on November 3, 2015 at 12:04 AM

    Thanks!

    Reply
  93. Todd on November 17, 2015 at 3:31 PM

    You’re my VMWare hero!!

    Reply
  94. sasikala on November 29, 2015 at 7:02 PM

    Thanks a lot! Really useful.

    Reply
  95. Reshma on December 2, 2015 at 10:48 PM

    Thanks for links….it definitely is incredibly difficult to download the vsphere client directly from vmware’s websites.

    Reply
  96. Janica on December 8, 2015 at 8:04 PM

    Thanks for providing the links.

    Reply
  97. Jesse Foster on December 18, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    Joseph, you are once again THE MAN! VMware makes is really difficult to find the free client versions and now even ESXi is elusive. I have struggled with this forever and didn’t even get help from my VMware rep!

    Reply
  98. Daniel on December 20, 2015 at 3:35 AM

    Thanks for the links, this saved me a lot of time.

    Reply
  99. Joe on December 20, 2015 at 9:03 AM

    Saved my bacon this morning with this (not to mention a 1/2 day drive to the client on a Sunday). Thanks!

    Reply
  100. netsteve on December 25, 2015 at 1:57 PM

    I feel like you. Thanks for the Link.

    Reply
  101. Eric on January 6, 2016 at 8:03 AM

    Thanks a lot!!! I agree. VMWare is making our job harder. This is not something you can get easily.

    Reply
  102. Ralph on January 22, 2016 at 7:32 AM

    Thank you for the Vsphere Client links!!!!
    I could NOT find them on VMWare’s site.

    Reply
  103. town on January 28, 2016 at 11:06 PM

    thanks a lot！

    Reply
  104. Robbie on February 5, 2016 at 1:28 AM

    Thanks Joseph, you’re right in that VMware make things more difficult than they need be, and why they do this is beyond me.

    Reply
  105. Mark on February 18, 2016 at 6:29 PM

    What an absolutely pathetic way to handle a website. Thank you so much for posting these. Every time I clicked a download link and even tried to download their stupid download client it would spit me back in the main menu again.

    Then I tried to leave website feedback, but whenever you click website feedback in the dropdown the page just refreshes and spits you back where you were. Same issue in multiple browsers.

    Reply
  106. Saeid on February 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM

    Thanks Joseph, links were really helpful,

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  107. Shyam on February 25, 2016 at 12:41 AM

    thanks brother , its works on xp

    Reply
  108. Gary on February 26, 2016 at 9:32 AM

    Thank you so much for sharing these. I don’t know what kind of wizardry you worked to get these, but your powers are better than mine. I have been beating my head against a wall with VMWare trying to get this for an hour. I put in a support ticket and was told an engineer would call me back in 8 hours. Absolutely ridiculous service. You rock!!

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  109. David Adams on March 23, 2016 at 5:33 AM

    Thanks so much for posting these links, the automatic downloader was 404ing, and I spent 30+ minutes trying to download the client from VMware’s site.

    THANKS!!!

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    • Joseph Turley on March 23, 2016 at 6:25 AM

      You bet. Happy to have been of service.

      Reply
  110. Raakesh on March 26, 2016 at 9:27 AM

    Thanks a lot, Joseph!

    Reply
  111. Happyman on March 26, 2016 at 9:46 PM

    I love your shortcut to download VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-3024345.exe and I could not understand why VMware so called a smart software compnay makes a so lousy and difficult way for just downloading VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-3024345.exe.

    Reply
  112. Djoko on April 23, 2016 at 7:35 PM

    Hello Joseph Turley

    Thank you so much for your pages. it’s really help me to learn for vmware

    Reply
  113. Carsten on May 5, 2016 at 7:49 AM

    Thank you, Joseph.

    I had the same Problem to find the right Client Version.

    Reply
  114. mostafa on June 11, 2016 at 2:08 AM

    Thanks a lot , I am happy that I am not the only one suffering to download vsphere client , I spend about an hour trying to download the vsphere client and vmware is directing to software manager where i could not find what i need , thanks a lot really

    Reply
  115. Tracy Lane on June 14, 2016 at 2:47 PM

    I had about a fifteen minute window to shut down our two vm servers, and no vm client installed on my new workstation. Wasn’t able to locate it on VMWare’s web site either, wish I would’ve came here first. I ended up doing a hard shut down. Both servers started back up with no problems, but would have preferred using the client to shut them down properly.

    Reply
  116. Paul on July 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM

    Thank you very much for this!!

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  117. Pranjal on July 21, 2016 at 1:08 PM

    Awesome job. Thank you

    Reply
  118. Raphael Nadeau on August 2, 2016 at 12:02 PM

    Thanks, I just bookmarked your sites!

    I was looking on Vmware’s website than google gave me your site. You saved me a lot of wasted time, so thanks.

    Reply
  120. Matt on August 9, 2016 at 1:59 PM

    THANK YOU!

    Reply
  121. Stefan Heymans on August 10, 2016 at 12:49 AM

    Thanks, you saved me a lot of time!

    Reply
  122. jessica on August 10, 2016 at 2:26 AM

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!

    Reply
  123. HS on August 18, 2016 at 8:51 AM

    Thank you for posting this!

    Reply
  124. Paul on September 20, 2016 at 9:50 AM

    Do they have a version for MACs?

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    • Joseph Turley on September 20, 2016 at 9:54 AM

      Unfortunately I don’t believe they do. Best thing you can do if you have vCenter is use Chrome on the Mac and access the web version. It’s pretty darn good when you get used to it.

      Reply
  125. John on September 30, 2016 at 3:14 PM

    3 years later and this posts popularity continues to rise – Thank you, Good Sir.

    Reply
    • Joseph Turley on September 30, 2016 at 4:26 PM

      It does indeed! Glad to help the Jackson community.

      Reply
  126. Elquin on October 7, 2016 at 8:52 AM

    Thanks a lot…. too useful your post!!!

    Reply
  127. Dan on December 28, 2016 at 2:40 PM

    Totally agree

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  128. Michail on January 4, 2017 at 1:18 AM

    A million thank you, just on time before they drove me crazy, damned VMware…

    Reply
  129. g on March 6, 2017 at 5:33 AM

    thanks a lot man!!! I was really pissed off, and then i got this 🙂

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  130. Sandy on March 13, 2017 at 12:23 AM

    I thought it was me! I have emailed them about this issue 10 times and no answer. When different sales people try too hit me up, I lay it on them also and they immediately stop communicating.

    So anyone have a clue as the their issue these days?

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    • Joseph Turley on March 13, 2017 at 12:24 AM

      NO clue! Let’s just say that further down the line in the comments a VMware employee himself came here looking for this. 🙂

      Reply
  131. Ray Sobers on March 16, 2017 at 7:19 AM

    This post in invaluable! Thank you sir!

    Reply
  132. Bob on March 30, 2017 at 4:29 AM

    like the thousand people here, Thanks! Why they make life hard..

    Reply
  133. arthur on April 2, 2017 at 11:00 PM

    Thanks .. really helpful

    Reply
  134. Piney on April 9, 2017 at 3:31 PM

    Thanks a lot! I used to be able to download it by pointing my browser at the esxi host but no now it’s nearly impossible to find.

    Reply
  135. david on April 13, 2017 at 1:51 PM

    Thank you I just spent 30min trying to figure out which item to download from their page and couldn’t figure out which one for this company I just moved to. Then I ran across this article and the issue was solved in seconds.

    Reply
  136. jack on April 25, 2017 at 8:00 AM

    Keep up the website! I’m an IT expert for YEARS and I couldn’t download the vSphere client from the official website. Why did they have to complicate it so much?

    Reply
  137. Ben on May 4, 2017 at 11:08 AM

    Thanks so much!

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  138. Faruk on May 8, 2017 at 5:37 AM

    Aha just what i was aimlessly looking for! Thank you Mr. Joseph.

    Reply
  139. Johannes Linkels on August 14, 2017 at 9:27 AM

    This is exactly why I HATE licensed software. Not that I have to pay for it. My customers do. But because of willful obfuscation, hard to find downloads, being pushed to newer versions, disappearing of older versions, documentation suddenly disappearing.
    As for VMWare, recently I downloaded 5.5 to run in a test environment. Two weeks later the same version was impossible to find. I was pushed to version 6 all the time. And when entering the 5.5 download areas my download was “illegal”. Now I inherited a number of 5.5 systems, so I had to test on 5.5. Not 6.
    Thanks to another person like you who posted deep links to 5.5 downloads, I was able to download. And save a copy for Gawd’s sake.
    jlinkels

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  140. Brendan on August 30, 2017 at 1:51 PM

    Thank you for this! Yes, they absolutely make it too hard for people to figure out which is the correct client. And then trying to download it is also impossible.

    Reply
  141. ORTECH on October 23, 2017 at 2:31 AM

    Thanks a Lot for your contribution

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  142. Dan on December 28, 2017 at 9:48 AM

    Thanks much! These links are a huge help to IT folks! I hope someday VMWare stops taking the Apple point of view and realizes that giving users more options is a GOOD thing.

    Reply
  143. Ken on February 6, 2018 at 11:45 AM

    2018 And we’re still downloading …… Thanks for the link.. I spent a few tries hitting lots of walls.. It does make sense to get Vcenter essentials but still.. Proof of concept sometimesisn’t 60 days…

    Reply
  144. Uwe Degenhardt on April 12, 2018 at 6:51 AM

    Hi Joseph ! Excellent. Thanks a bunch ! 🙂

    Reply
  145. Brandon Evans on May 28, 2018 at 10:27 AM

    Thanks a bunch for the links, especially taking the time as new releases came out to keep this updated. Like you, I often found myself connecting to an ESI host just to find the darn thing, but now that the program has been discontinued with vSphere 6.5, I find it even more difficult to find these installers. I’ll be saving a link to this page in Evernote!

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  146. Chang on July 20, 2018 at 3:19 AM

    Sure, VMWare may surely be hard to go around, but that’s not the only spamming stupidity around here : anyone who sets there internet-browsing futuristicly-soled foot on VMWare’s property and attempts to download something there is forced to create an account by answering, at the minimum, a bundle of personal informations, even if they have absolutely no need and no business with that! And speaking of business, tell me, exatly where in the VMWare homepage or rules does it say that you have to own a company to rightfully download something?! Suddenly, as you click “create an account”, you have to input tons of company information… which is impossible scince I don’t own a company! VMWare, I know you think that every single adult in the planet has a company up his sleeves- even the individuals’ employees are in charge of some other company- no need to say the site is for professionals… but no, this is not the case. It’s like asking a user for their sister’s name : for one thing you wouldn’t need to ask that unless you were attempting to sell the info to a 3rd party or wanted to spam the person; for another it’s none of your business; and finally it’s something that not everyone has! You’re intelligent enough to make excellent software, you know what company info can consist of, I admit that’s above me, but you can’t even judge correctly what are the sole informations that EVERYONE possesses??! I would be forced to lie or loophole the form’s limitations to be most truthful to create that darn account!

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  147. Ty on September 13, 2018 at 1:27 AM

    Just to say thanks, this has saved me a lot of time through many re-installs 🙂

    Reply
  148. Elvis Lin on January 9, 2019 at 9:00 PM

    I agree your opinion
    it’s hard to find the client download
    thank a lot

    Reply
  149. Leonardo on July 4, 2019 at 12:42 AM

    Muchas gracias, me ha servido de mucho poder descargarlo.
    Un saludo desde Spain.
    Leo.

    Reply
  150. Keith on September 15, 2021 at 3:01 AM

    Have bookmarked this page – after spending ten minutes going in circles – in frustration I searched why is it so difficult to download the VSPhere client – which led me here.

    Many Thanks

    Reply
  151. MeowMix on June 22, 2022 at 10:39 AM

    Thank you for being an absolute legend!

    Reply
  152. Emilio on March 1, 2023 at 4:26 AM

    Any idea why the links stopped working?

    Reply

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