My bad. I noticed the date on the left hand pane which says "posts since" and wrongly assumed it to be the date of the post. It should have been obvious to me that the post couldn't have been that old coz win server 2012 was not available that far back.\
I was generally in a bad mood spending hours to have to connect to vCenter! On my mac, vsphere web client works, but console does not work as it is not supported. So, I'm again forced to get on a windows. And on win server 2012 (the only one I have on had right now), I hit many issues, and even after overcoming many issues listed at the bottom, I still cannot connect to console.
I cannot upgrade the host to ESX 5.1 as the host does not belong to me and cannot be upgraded right now
If someone cares -
vsphere web client on win server 2012
- IE does not work with flash
- firefox 32-bit hangs with flash
- firefox nightly 64-bit connects to vsphere web client. Even after vmrc was installed, I cannot connect to console
vsphere thick client
- console disconnects due to vmrc issue