vSphere Integrated Containers Plug-In Does Not Appear
After you have installed either of the HTML5 or Flex-based plug-ins for vSphere Integrated Containers, the plug-ins do not appear in the HTML5 vSphere Client or the Flex-based vSphere Web Client.
Problem
The UI plug-in installer reported success, but the plug-ins do not appear in the client. Logging out of the client and logging back in again does not resolve the issue.
Cause
- If a previous attempt at installing the vSphere Integrated Containers plug-ins failed, the failed installation state is retained in the client cache.
- You installed a new version of the vSphere Integrated Containers plug-ins that has the same version number as the previous version, for example a hot patch.
Solution
Restart the client service.
Restart the HTML5 Client on vCenter Server on Windows
- Log into the Windows system on which vCenter Server is running.
- Open a command prompt as Administrator.
- Use the
service-control
command-line utility to stop and then restart the vSphere Client service."C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin\service-control" --stop vsphere-ui
"C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin\service-control" --start vsphere-ui
Restart the Flex Client on vCenter Server on Windows
- Log into the Windows system on which vCenter Server is running.
- Open a command prompt as Administrator.
- Use the
service-control
command-line utility to stop and then restart the vSphere Client service."C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin\service-control" --stop vspherewebclientsvc
"C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\bin\service-control" --start vspherewebclientsvc
Restart the HTML5 Client on a vCenter Server Appliance
- Use SSH to log in to the vCenter Server Appliance as
root
. - Use the
service-control
command-line utility to stop the vSphere Client service.service-control --stop vsphere-ui
- Restart the vSphere Client service.
service-control --start vsphere-ui
Restart the Flex Client on a vCenter Server Appliance
- Use SSH to log in to the vCenter Server Appliance as
root
. - Use the
service-control
command-line utility to stop the vSphere Web Client service.service vsphere-client stop
- Restart the vSphere Web Client service.
service-control --start vsphere-client