> Are you seriously recommending someone install a version of ESXi that is no longer supported on new hardware?
> Clock is ticking on 5.5 support as well. I'll take a web client over having to install a Win32 app, with all those C++ run time files
> (that gets added to with every incremental version of the VI client) and then of course, having to run Windows any day of the week.
Yes I recommend to use 5.1 or 5.5 with out any doubts.
Especially for small environments or one host setups that will probably never call VMware support I value ease of administration and better chances to recover data after VMFS corruption much higher than official support.
By the way - your opinion regarding the webclient does not match the experience of many many other users - see
vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting VMware has turn to SH**!
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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...
