I have been using the *new* web client for 6 months now... not exactly thrilled by it, compared to the older windows client; however, I can find my way around it finally.
Some things I would like to see changed:
1 - on the Datastore | Manage | Files grid there are buttons for Upload, Refresh, Add, Delete.
PROBLEM: when you click on Refresh button, all the buttons get shifted to the left and a "refreshing" icon is added on the right hand side.
If you have a twitchy left finger on the mouse, instead of clicking twice on the Refresh button, you click once on the Refresh button then once on the Add button.
Now, adding a folder is not the end of the world... but you could click on the Delete button instead.
WHEN the UI responsiveness is not reliable/consistent, don't move the click points around.
SOLUTION: move the "refreshing" icon to the left of the buttons, or leave a dedicated spot on the right for "status" icons, or add a "status" icon somewhere else.
2 - on the Datastore | Manage | Files the only commands for managing Files are upload, download, delete.
PROBLEM: need all of standard file management commands, including Rename, Copy, Move.
These commands are available via PowerCLI and the Windows vSphere Client; shouldn't need to load up a second/third UI to run common commands.
SOLUTION: add the Rename, Copy, Move commands.
3 - On the Datastore | Manage | Scheduled Tasks the options are "configure storage IO control" and "new vm"... these are not the type of tasks I want to schedule.
PROBLEM: using PowerCLI to run a script to copy files from one datastore to another. (I have tried Orchestrator, that is overkill for doing simple tasks).
SOLUTION: allow user to schedule Tasks for any Command which is available through the UI for that grid.