I Recently started configuring 8 new vmware 6.7 host servers, to replace 5.5 & 6.0 servers. Reading how bad the GUIs were getting over the past couple of years is why we did not upgrade sooner...
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I Recently started configuring 8 new vmware 6.7 host servers, to replace 5.5 & 6.0 servers. Reading how bad the GUIs were getting over the past couple of years is why we did not upgrade sooner. We HOPED 6.7 would be better. In the 5.5 or 6.0 vSphere client I clicked on the host > Configuration > Networking it showed a very nice picture of ALL vswitches.....EVERYTHING I needed to know was right there on 1 screen.....scroll up/down.....instantly knew everything about everything. There was a little box to the right I could click and it would tell me what switch + port was plugged in. In 6.7 U1 web client and 6.7 U1 vCenter this appears to be gone???? You now can ONLY SEE ONE VSWITCH at a time.....and the information is only partly there......and I have to constantly flip between all of the individual vswitch/vmkernel/port groups screens to figure out what is where. THIS IS GARBAGE!!! If VMware is not going to listen to their CUSTOMERS (we have thousands of enterprise licensed VMware servers) then I'm going to recommend to our management that we look for a better solution. The back end product is good.....your customer / user / gui interface......what we see and work with every day......is terrible. Would you proudly drive a Ferrari with a smashed in fender and grill?? That's exactly what the user interface for 6.5 & 6.7 feel like.
