I didn't think Lifecycle Manager Single Images could get worse - I was wrong again! (another rant)

[Carl Power]

After upgrading to vSphere 8, it dawned on me what was before me - single images for standalone servers, my new nightmare.

Now you may see this as not a big problem, but heres my current environment:

• 160+ standalone physical servers (all are ML30 Gen10)
• 150+ secondary servers for vSAN witnesses
• 160+ vSAN clusters (2 hosts + witness, all are DL360 Gen10)

Where baselines were able to be implemented at the root folder and apply to all child items, I now have 470+ unique single images to manage in my environment, and each needs to be independently updated every time I want to update my environment...

Please VMware Gods, allow me to link single images to a master image!!!

[Alexandru Capras]

Not really a rant if you see it as a chance to throw a solid idea at the VMware devs, but yeah, I get the struggle.
I know that you can still use baselines in vSphere 8 regardless - is this not an option for you anymore?

[Carl Power]

I'm trying to follow the design, but I may actually do just that.
We already have vSAN clusters in single image mode, but now applying it to standalone servers essentially triples the wasted time managing 470+ individual images instead of the 3 different platforms...