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Another Video Training Tiplet for you. This time, we’re taking a look at the many ways to upgrade the vSphere Client to v4.1. While the upgrade itself is pretty standard stuff, sometimes just finding the right client can be a challenge. This tiplet shows you how. TRANSCRIPT: Hey, this is Greg Shields with another Windows IT Pro Video Training Tiplet, this time we’re upgrading the VMware vSphere Client from version 4.0 to version 4.1. After you’ve gone through upgrading one or more of your servers from version 4.0 to 4.1, you’re gonna’ find that you’re going to need to upgrade that vSphere client to the new version. The version 4.0 client does not work with servers that are at version 4.1; however, the reverse is true. If you have a 4.1 client, you’ll actually still be able to work with your 4.0 servers. Now there are a couple of different ways in which you can get the client. You may or may not know that the vSphere Client is no longer deployed with ESX or ESXi. So, downloading it something that’s going to have to happen over the Internet. If you have a vCenter Server and you attempt to connect to that vCenter Server – you can see here vcenter.company.pri – if you attempt to connect to that vCenter Server by clicking the logon button here you’ll notice an interesting box that pops up letting you know that you need to download those required client support files. VMware does actually package the vCenter Client with vCenter Server, even though they don’t with ESX or ESXi. So, you can click here to save the installer, click it, download it, run it, and actually complete the installation using this facility. Now, if you just have ESX or ESXi servers the process to do this is going to be just a little bit different. You’ll see here that I’ve brought up Internet Explorer, and what I want to do instead is go to HTTP with the IP address for that server. There will be a problem with the website’s security certificate, but that’s OK. What we want to do is get h