franktroeger
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Hi Dennis,

1. for me its way more easy to check the Lun Number and WWN to find the Lun i want to extend in Storage than to search for the scsiid so it was nice to have the connection between fc source wwn + lun id + scsi id. I just opened storage admin website / app + maps in client and expand lund or unmap and took a look on scsi identifiery to verify. now i click on several luns in storage to compare long identifier.

Second huge thing in maps for me is to see errors in vmotion config. Its just more easy than to migrate one vm during error occours.

2.  i do it from time to time, usecase 1. migrate from cloud datacenter into lokal dc with nearly no access to source vc.

usecase 2. makeing a backup of a non functional vm caused by snapshot issues. in this case i normally try to fix the files. edit files on cli means i want to go back to the source.

usecase 3. making a offline backup on hdd for archiveing for a customer out of backup solution. or just to be independent of ova or ovf format.

Its not a big deal and i know there are 10k methods to get around of it (use scp, or cp on esxi shell) but i had the chance in early versions and i used it and now its gone for no reason.

3.Every time i fix alua and path settings and make failover tests in sync mirror environments i want to see this information.

Classic scenario customer complains about frozen or unresponsive vms during failover i check psp on the datastores and active paths to check if i see what i expect.

few days ago i see fixed with default active active on datacore luns. now i had to change on datacoreside to alua and on vsphere side to roundrobin and want to see if alua works as designed and failover too. This is just not possible if there is just an online led on the path.

If you want to see a driver / firmware / setting issue easy and clear its an awesome information.

No big deal i am aware of esxcli. But same here i have seen this for years and one guy decide "its not important to see this information" makes me kind of wondering why the guy ten years ago took it into a gui.

4. Yes i am just using VMRC because Webconsole sucks so hard i cant describe my feelings if i dont want to be impolite.

But fact is that you claim to be an enterprise only company for huge datacenters and i have to INSTALL a plugin into a corp browser to use the console. Webconsole is a mess if you use a keyboard layout or browser language different from en-us. Especially /ui interface in vcenter has different effects than /ui on esx or flash client.

Gives me the feeling 3 teams try to make it fly.

In many of my customer environments i can handle this but in the huge environments where i am not allowed to use the browser i want nor disable proxy or change setting or i am not allowed to install plugins i am kind of lost. but funny that this are the enterprise environments you claim to make your software for.

5. This issue happened in my ICM 6.5 class i dont think its out of date inventory but its a sleep in console if you dont interact for few minutes, now you have to click into console but there is the power on button. And for real i have seen out of sync inventory or grey out vmotion in 6.5 in real world and in lab environments.

Thats the point you cant trust your admin interface anymore cause it can be an issue or its just your browser/gpo/proxy/cache messing around.

6. seems to work in my 6.5d environment. maybe its a 6.5b on windows issue or browser or proxy i dont know i will investigate.

7. ok ill paste a screenshot next time but this was in our environment 6.5d and admin pc was macbook. no i didnt open a ticked i just reload the website.

8. sorry to clarify i have a customer who has a "no permissions" error message in the "Tags" box if he click on a VM from time to time. in my mind its a 6.0x version. reload or relogin solve it.

9. This is an error i dont understand and i will update from 6.5b to 6.5d (on windows) asap. customer has a active directory group which is member of the sso admin group. but he cant see anything in any permission tab (VC/DC/Cluster/Hosts/VMs). It was a fresh installation, maybe i open a support request. But its not a big deal they can do any other task in vcenter, just permissions seems to be broken. and the link in the licenses and global permissions due to membership in sso aministrators group seem not to work too.

One additional point "open support request" even the support has often no idea why permissions not work, few weeks ago i had a veeam / vmware issue and i had to deal with a workaround to add a local os user in linux because support on both sides just fingerpointing on each other.

Problem was that windows user with admin group membership in vmware could log in and make everything but used by veeam snapshots did not work.

Thanks for your attention

Kind regards

Frank

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