Great to hear that.. But don’t you think VMware just focuses/giving higher priority to the Maximum Configuration rather than spending much time to introduce fancy feature or enhancing the current feature?

Thinking of everything as a Maximum, I don’t think one day will come that I have to use 1 TB or vRam or 64 vCPUs. May some people are there to use this much of amount, but if VMware count the customers that will use this much of Configuration maximum and compare them with those that looking for more features enhancement, I think the ratio will higher for those whose looking for features enhancement.

I have already budgeted to upgrade my hosts from Enterprise to Enterprise Plus, but thanks that the licensing policy has changed well-done vMWare.

Looking forward to experience more fancy features such as

* Backup Replication
* Built-In vCenter that would install on each host and synchronize with other vCenter within the hosts clusters. So, no chance of losing the vCenter if vCenter running on a VM and the host that hosts the vCenter powered off / Outages. vCenter will be available from any hosts…
* Adding Hardware resources at once, such as adding vNICs, select the number of vNICs and point them to the PortGroups and apply the configuration at once.
* Adding HardDisk instead of now only one hard disk can be added at a time, multiple hard disk would be added at once and apply configuration
* Adding iSCSI Targets, better to implement a scan feature on the IP Subnet to detect the iSCSI Targets and add them all at once after identified / selected the targets and add them all at once.
* Adding multiple iSCSI Targets all at once instead of adding one by one.. IP Address and beside it the port.
* In Scheduled tasks, in case I have a power maintenance, and I want to shut down all the VMs. In the Change Power State of VM, I can’t select multiple VMs to change it’s power state as of now only one per task.
* Events/ Errors / System Logs. If vMWare would enhance this category of Events/Errors same as Windows that give sufficient explanation to the Administrator along with KB Articles for the Administrator to response,, I think it will enhance this part as well.

* With regards to vSphere and VMWare View. Here I will give a clear example of vSphere Hosts / vCenter / VMWare View from a security prospective only and hoping/looking forward that vMware will change this.

If vSphere Management network behind a firewall / on another subnet different than the production network where application servers / domain controllers are hosted. and vCenter server for sure it’s beside the vSphere Management Network to control hosts operation. the vCenter is not joined to the Production Domain, because it has nothing to do with. When it comes to VMWare View Deployment, agents that installed on View Composers and other agents need to be part of the domain, and the vCenter requires that to be part of the domain. since vCenter on another subnet, the soltuion for this either communication must be established between both subnet in order for vCenter to be joined to the domain or put the vSphere Management and vCenter on the Production network beside the core applications and domain controllers. “Would you agree on bringing your heart of your network infrastructure to the production network where everything available, internet, users etc etc etc..?” It’s vary between organization to another.

Keeping the vSphere Management and vCenter behind firewalls and introducing an additional vCenter for the purpose of VMWare View only, the ESX Hosts requires to be added to the vCenter View Which is not possibe to add ESX host to more that one vCenter as the vpxa agent will be uninstalled automatically from the current vCenter which is managing those hosts..

The only solution to this either the hosts should be brought to the production network or a communication must be established between both subnet in order to centralize VMWare View on same vSphere Setup.

Or having different hosts along with vCenter Server that beside the production network only managing VMWare View VDI Images.

Well, it’s a bit of dilemma in here and it’s all depends on the customer, but vMWare should think about this and enhance it a bit.

If an additional thinks comes in mind, I won’t be hesitate

Regards,

Hyper-V 2012 looks like a pretty good alternative now.