I have to agree, best post title so far. As for the web client, I definitely have to agree there is no good option. The C# client has become so bloated it's almost useless and the web client ha...
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I have to agree, best post title so far. As for the web client, I definitely have to agree there is no good option. The C# client has become so bloated it's almost useless and the web client has never been very good. I have tried vSphere 6.5 and the HTML client, but even not having the Flash component the experience is not the greatest. Through both my work setup (17 vCenters, 500+ hosts, 10k+ VMs globally) and the home lab I am pretty sure that no matter what, this problem will persist until the underlying Java code is fixed. I can't even begin to count how many times we have to tweak the java heap settings because we added a plugin, or a few extra folks are logging in, or someone's using the Perl or Python SDK's (please make those go away!). Almost every other day we have to restart the webclient service on the VCSA due to either an SSO failure, taking 5 minutes to switch from the summary tab to the management tab on a host, or just getting the lovely "something happened, reload " error message. My only viable solution thus far, use PowerCLI for management tasks. I'm comfortable with CLI, having a strong Unix/Linux background, but PowerCLI seems to be rock solid, does what I need without hesitation, and I don't need to constantly restart services or wait 5 minutes just to switch to the management tab. I will admit it was a learning curve but way back when VMware first hinted at dumping the C# client I made the switch. Hopefully VMware does fix the web client and makes it rock solid because it's the central focus of 90% of the vRealize and vCloud suites and is an integral part of the product overall. Don't let someone else eat your lunch because of a bad UI...