There is no GA plugin available for the HTML5 client. This is planed to be included on the 8.2 release.

You may use the beta client as a workaround, However this needs manual installation.. Please ensure that you take a snapshot before you run through the below steps. 

cleanup: Delete/move the contents of the below directory. If the directory do not exist, create them.

ui client:
  /etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/com.vmware.vco-7.3.1
 Flex client:
  /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/com.vmware.vco-7.3.1/

H5 plugin:

Download the zip file from

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=VCOIN-BETA

extract the contents of the file to the below path

/etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/com.vmware.vco-7.3.1

set appropriate permissions to the directory

chown -R  vsphere-ui:users  /etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/com.vmware.vco-7.3.1

restart vsphere-ui client:

service-control --restart vsphere-ui

vsphere-flex-client

Download file:

https://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/35002-8-243022/vco-plugin-7.4.0.16380053.zip

extract the contents of the zip to

/etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/com.vmware.vco-7.3.1/

set appropriate permissions

chown -R  vsphere-client:users /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/com.vmware.vco-7.3.1

Note: for VRO 8.2, The path should be com.vmware.vco-7.4.0

restart vsphere-webclient service:

service-control --restart vsphere-client

log back in and double check , The plugin will take about 3-5 min to pull data from vRo on loading it.

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