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Cool browser plugin for Dark Theme vSphere H5 Client 

05.12.2018 by William Lam // 5 Comments

While catching up on my news feed early this morning, I came across a really slick browser plugin developed by Jens L. that enables a "Dark" theme for the vSphere HTML5 Client (h5client). If you use either Chrome or Firefox, simply visit Bery's Github site here to get a link to the plugin.


Once the plugin has been enabled, simply login to your vSphere H5 Client, this works using vSphere 6.5 or latest 6.7 and you should see the UI automatically render using the Dark theme without any modifications to your vCenter Server. I know the Clarity team is working on an out-of-the-box Dark Theme for the H5 Client, but until then, this is an excellent workaround. I definitely appreciate this as someone who does work either super late at night or super early in the morning and although I use things like Flux to reduce the brightness of the screen, having a proper dark theme also helps. Thanks for the awesome project Bery!

Here is a screenshot of my vSphere 6.5 environment, which I was able to make use of new theme morning 🙂


If you have any feedback or comments, feel free to post an issue on Bery's github project.

Categories // Home Lab Tags // vsphere web client

Changes to vSphere Client Login UI customizations in vSphere 6.7

05.09.2018 by William Lam // 11 Comments

For those that have customized their vSphere Client Login UI using the instructions here and here, it looks like the process can not be applied to the vSphere 6.7 release. From what I can tell, it looks like we have now consolidated the various WAR files into a single file /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/webapps/ROOT.war. The original contents of the websso directory, which pertains to the UI customization, is now located here. This was a fairly minor change, but something to be aware of and for details on how to persist your configuration changes, please see the instructions below.

UPDATE (11/19/22) - As of vSphere 8, the webapp WAR file is now located in /var/lib/sso/webapps/ROOT.war

Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware. If you decide to enable this, please use at your own risk and ensure you backup all original files in case you need revert back to the original configuration.

As part of looking into this, I also had some fun incorporating a cool little animated login page directly into the vSphere UI which I had shared on Twitter yesterday. Stay tuned for more details on #vYetti 🙂

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Categories // vSphere 6.7, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // ROOT.war, vSphere 6.7, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0, vsphere web client, websso.war

Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring

05.03.2018 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

In this blog post, we will take a look at using VMware Wavefront, a recent acquisition, that is a leading SaaS based metrics and monitoring solutions for Cloud Native Applications. Wavefront supports monitoring Kuberenetes (K8S) and many other applications, but what is really neat about Wavefront is that it not only does it give us deeper metrics about our K8S infrastructure (cluster, pod, namespaces and containers), but it can also be used to help developers instrument their application for metric collection and monitoring and provide a complete end-to-end view. The Wavefront team also recently published this blog post which has a nice video demo of their integration with VMware PKS.

If you missed any of the previous articles, you can find the complete list here:

  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 1: Overview
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 2: PKS Client
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 3: NSX-T
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 4: Ops Manager & BOSH
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 5: PKS Control Plane
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 6: Kubernetes Go!
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 7: Harbor
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 8: Monitoring Tool Overview
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 9: Logging
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 10: Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring
  • vGhetto Automated Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Lab Deployment

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Categories // Cloud Native, Kubernetes Tags // BOSH, Kubernetes, PCF, Pivotal, PKS, Wavefront

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