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iLikeMoney
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Resource pools on ESXi 6.5

Upgraded a stand-alone 6.0 ESXi host to 6.5.0b this morning.  Put it into maintenance mode using the thick client for the last time... makes me sad.

Anyway upgrade went smoothly except for the fact that I no longer see any of the 15-20 resource pools we had defined on here.  We use them historically not so much to throttle resources but to organize VMs by user.  If we give someone a local account and define it on the resource group then those were the only VMs they had visibility to when logging in.

On our vcenter we just use folders for that purpose. 

So have resource pools been removed from standalone ESXi as of version 6.5?

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iLikeMoney
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I take that back. For grins I just tried logging into ESXi 6.5 with the 6.0 thick client which surprisingly worked (does not work with vcenter but this particular ESXi server is not managed by a vcenter) and there are all the resource pools. So they're still there, I created a new resource pool and dropped a VM into it, no issues.

Next I close that out and try to access the ESXi with the flash-based web client.  It's when I get logged into here is where I lose visibility to the resource pools. Maybe there's a view to show the resource pools in the web client that I just haven't clicked on yet.

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xMeathookx
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I'll back up this question. Being new on 6.5, I've noticed the same thing and was wondering, if there still is a way to manage users through resource pools just like iLikeMoney described.

I'm still at the beginning of my research, so I'll let you know if I find anything out.

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hussainbte
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VMware wants us to call the HTML5 client the vSphere client now... a name which was used for the c# client.

The management of resource pools form the client is not listed under unsupported functionality ...

Check if this link helps..

vSphere HTML5 Web Client

If you found my answers useful please consider marking them as Correct OR Helpful Regards, Hussain https://virtualcubes.wordpress.com/
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dleopold
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Hi All,

Has there been any update on this issue? I am also not able to see the resource pools after upgrading to ESXi 6.7 (Desktop client is no longer functional either).

Thanks

dleopold
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Still experiencing this issue. I am unable to deploy the new HTML5 client also, as I am running ESXi and not ESX vCenter.

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dleopold
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So, as a temporary workaround, I just removed all the resource pools using the vim-cmd over SSH.

- vim-cmd hostsvc/rsrc/vms_get pool0/pool1 (get list of VMs associated with the resource pools)

- vim-cmd vmsvc/unregister XX (unregister all VMs associated with the resource pool)

- vim-cmd solo/register XX (register VMs again which are automatically assigned to the default resource pool (ha-root-pool))

- vim-cmd hostsvc/rsrc/pool_config_get ha-root-pool (to check that all resources are assigned to the default resource pool)

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darkdragon001
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Still no way to use resource pools in the web client?

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