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    <title>Billco Tracker</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2023-11-21T06:15:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting VMware has turn to SH**!</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/vSphere-Web-Client-is-so-bad-that-my-experience-managing-and/m-p/922020#M77661</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have to jump in here, as both a VAR selling servers on which vSphere is frequently deployed, and as a casual user of ESXi for my own internal projects and development.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I frankly like neither the web client nor the legacy desktop client, for different reasons.&amp;nbsp; The web client is very slow, confusing due to the poor organisation of its menus and dialogs, and the console plugin simply does not work well over VNC/RDP/Citrix.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The desktop client is also slower than it should be (speaking as a rusty developer), has absolutely horrendous error reporting, lacks lots of what I consider essential functionality, for example patching hosts and various batch operations.&amp;nbsp; On the upside, it works well for the most common tasks of starting/stopping and deploying VMs, and basic configuration tasks.&amp;nbsp; It is good enough for perhaps 80% of my daily tasks, with the rest currently handled via clumsy CLI/scripts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here's what I would expect from the ideal client:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- it MUST be my go-to for all management and maintenance tasks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- it MUST give the option to remember my login credentials, because my workstation is already secured via other means&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- it MUST let me patch hosts without needing some convoluted toolchain like VUM or the command line&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- it MUST let me configure every aspect of individual hosts and clusters via context menus and wizards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- it MUST give meaningful error messages when something does not work as intended, and the means to fix such problems (e.g. killing a hung VM process)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- it should let me save multiple sets of IP / credentials, because I often work with multiple, separate sites&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Most importantly: it should be pleasant to use, because the last thing I need during an outage or system failure, is frustrating software that slows me down by being unreasonably sluggish.&amp;nbsp; The server is *one* hop away from my workstation, on a gigabit or better pipe.&amp;nbsp; Why should I wait several seconds to populate a list of VMs or check a performance graph ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I see this being most readily achieved with a desktop client.&amp;nbsp; The web interface can come later, or better yet: publish good API documentation and let the community produce a web interface.&amp;nbsp; Just look at the variety of clients out there for Xen and KVM... those technologies aren't as mature as ESXi, but the tools are light-years ahead and scripting is a breeze.&amp;nbsp; Why don't we paying customers have tools at least as good as the free stuff ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Billco</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-29T00:16:01Z</dc:date>
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