Matt, I thank you as well for the response. I ran across this thread from a search for "vsphere web client lacking" after a somewhat frustrating day of working with it. I'm a newcomer to vMWare in general, so I don't have a huge background with the C# client or a bias toward it all that much. But I can say that trying to work with the web client is hard to get used to, even with only a little exposure to the alternative.

Menus are in different places (different doesn't mean bad, necessarily, but it seems like there isn't much reason to many of the changes). It runs much slower than the old client, but I do also know as another poster mentioned that this could be due to resources being underprovisioned on our vSphere (as well as the rest of our virtual environment). That said, the C# client still operates much faster than the web client. In general, I don't like web-based management solutions because they all seem to be less efficient than their predecessors (Lync 2010/2013 vs OCS, for example).

I may be brave and join that volunteer corps myself...