A web based interface for my ESXi home lab

Managing ESXi

The free VMware ESXi hypervisor is very good for creating a virtual lab at home. But its main limitation is the lack of a web based management interface.
Administering ESXi requires installing the VMware vSphere Client, that has two drawbacks:

• It requires a Windows PC to run
• It is no longer improved by VMware

In fact the VMware strategic management interface is the web based interface that is included in the full vSphere infrastructure. But there is no free license for it.
No longer being the strategic direction, the vSphere Client development has slowed down. As a consequence it now has some limitations, like the inability of editing few parameters of the latest VMware virtual hardware.

But VMware has release a beta version of a new web interface that can be installed directly on ESXi.