Get-vSphereClient Function • Technodrone

As was posted on the new KB article 1029925 the vSphere Client is no longer packaged with current builds of ESX and ESXi. However it is packaged with vCenter, so you can still get it from the web interface of your vCenter server.

Since they have posted a direct URL to the download I decided to wrap this in a PowerShell script
Get-vSphereClient.

Function Get-vSphereClient {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
	Downloads the vsphere 4.1 Build 258902 Client
.DESCRIPTION
	As was posted on the new KB article 1029925 the vSphere Client is no longer
	packaged with builds of ESX and ESXi. This function will download the vSphere
	client from VMware's site
.NOTES
	Author: Maish Saidel-Keesing
.PARAMETER Url
	The url for the .exe file
.PARAMETER Path
	The location the file will be saved
.EXAMPLE
	PS> Get-vSphereClient -url https://vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/2/5/8/9/0/2/VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902.exe -path c:\temp\viclient.exe
#>

param (
$url="https://vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/2/5/8/9/0/2/VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902.exe",
$path="c:\temp\VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902.exe"
)

##Create Web Client
$client = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$client.DownloadFile($url,$path)
}

Hope you can make use of this.

Jase McCarty posted an article on on how to change this behavior on his blog a few months back as well.