Upgraded a stand-alone 6.0 ESXi host to 6.5.0b this morning. Put it into maintenance mode using the thick client for the last time... makes me sad.
Anyway upgrade went smoothly except for the fact that I no longer see any of the 15-20 resource pools we had defined on here. We use them historically not so much to throttle resources but to organize VMs by user. If we give someone a local account and define it on the resource group then those were the only VMs they had visibility to when logging in.
On our vcenter we just use folders for that purpose.
So have resource pools been removed from standalone ESXi as of version 6.5?