Re: vSphere 5.5 - Will I be FORCED to use the web client??

Hi,

until the "legacy" fat client will be supported you can use it to manage your vCenter server. But as others already mentioned there are some caveats:

- you will lose many new and cool features

- you will not be able to edit VMs with HW version 10 (anyway you can acomplish this with PowerCLI scripts... )

For features comparison between Web an Fat clients see this blog post:

Which vSphere client should I use and when? | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

Also look at these articles:

VMware KB: Editing virtual machine settings fails with the error: You cannot use the vSphere client to edit the sett…

VMware KB: Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version (multiple versions)