Well, I was very impressed that VMware had released ESXi for free, and I have just as suddenly become very unimpressed with them. In ESX 3.0 with VI Client 2.0, you could edit permissions for the host, a resource pool, and/or a VM. I went to adjust permissions on my ESX 3.5 server yesterday and noticed that the tab is now suddenly gone. I went into the ESXi 3.5 client (VI Client 2.5) and found the same. So, I posted a thread and was told that this feature is no longer available in 3.5. I opened an SR, then went over to the VMware KB and found the following arctile, 1004552, which states that this was removed by design! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I upgraded to 3.5 and had a feature taken away? I'm not paying any less for 3.5! Also, the price actually went UP recently! And now VMware is removing features?? This makes me really, really mad! The article stated that some similar functionality "may" be restored in the future, but that doesn't help me now. I don't have budget for purchasing Virtual Center, and, reading over the release notes that I read when I installed 3.5, I don't see any mention of this feature being removed.
VMware: please, please, please add it back - removing it is so silly I cannot believe you would do that!
