> This release includes many great new features that we’ve been working on
Great new features ? - that sounds frightening. I understand that you have to announce great new features just to make sure you still have a job for another year.
But do not think you can impress us users with such an announcement.
As a long term user I learned that "great new features" come and go - independantly from the wishes and needs of the users.
New features are nice - but as the drawback we will get used to it quickly and then it becomes anoying if they disappear again.
I regard WS 7 - ACE-edition as the most stable and feature-rich version VMware ever created.
At thatt time I even used to recommend sparse VMDKs for production usage.
Nowadays I tell users that using sparse VMDKs is an unacceptable risk only suitable for discardable VMs.
Longterm power users like me will not get excited when you announce a new feature X - we are rather worried and ask ourselves wether feature A still works as expected.
Lets have a quick look at some items on your new feature list ...
- Hardware version 16 = this is no new feature - this is maintenance to keep up with the changes in the real physical hardware
- REST API for automation = may be useful for 1% of the users
- Better vSphere client - ESXi Host/cluster view when connecting to vCenter - who needs several different versions of a vSphere ?
- We still remember a fully functional solid thick-client which no longer exists. Since then we see several completely different approaches to get back to the old standard - none of them is convincing.
To impress an old longterm user you would need a feature list like this:
- FIXED: the repair function of vmware-vdiskmanager is working again
Unfortunately my wishlist is not sexy at all - nothing in there that would impress your boss at the next quarterly shareholder meeting ...
But we users would see that you do something to work against the downward spirale that seems unstoppable since WS 8.
Regards Ulli
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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...
