Tools to correlate MOID and inventory object names in VMware vSphere
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vSphere Web Client
Is there a vSphere Client for Linux and Mac?
If you are using a Linux-based pc or Mac OS X and want to manage a vSphere-environment then you might ask yourself the question if there is a native OS-version of the vSphere Client available for your platform.
The short answer is: no.
Import a vCenter Server Linux Appliance with the vSphere Web Client
When you need to import a vCenter Linux-based appliance there are two clients that you can use to perform this task. Your best choice is the vSphere Web Client but that will only be available if you already have vCenter running. So that will only be possible for a second or more vCenter server. When you need to import your first vCenter appliance the client you must use is the vSphere Client on Windows. (How to do that is explained here.)
Finding virtual machines that need a hardware upgrade
The vSphere Web Client contains useful filtering options. One of them is to create a filter based on the virtual machine compatibility. This makes it easy to find virtual machines that need an upgrade to the latest virtual hardware version. Just enable the filter (see image below) and select all compatibility modes except the latest one (in this example vmx-10). You will only see virtual machine levels in the filter based on the virtual machines in your environment.