I was just doing some testing of backup restoration, and as part of that had need to delete the restored profiles and disk images on several nodes. First time I've removed images with the new manager, and I find I really miss the old manager's ability to select several disk images and/or profiles to request their deletion in one shot.

It's actually more than just a nicety - because of how the new manager is refreshing behind the scenes, the screen can suddenly change when you're trying to click on a second entry to delete just as a prior job finishes, and due to how the screen adjusts in such a case you can end up clicking where you don't expect. The only way to avoid this is to wait until the prior deletion job fully finishes, which is really tedious.

In fact (though I have no idea how), when deleting restored profiles, somehow I managed to click to delete my second profile just as the first was completing, and I never got prompted to confirm the second deletion, it just happened. I presume it was a race condition with the AJAX response and the Javascript handler for clicking the link, but it was very disconcerting.

Between the race with the background refresh, and given that you don't see a confirmation of the actual profile/image name you clicked to delete, it's almost scary to try to do multiple deletes back to back.

Basically, I'd rather not fight with the asynchronous refresh when trying to do multiple deletions - it just feels fragile. I suppose the ability to disable auto-refresh for a period would work too, but the old approach of being able to select more than one profile/image at a time as a batch request seems to be better than the current setup.

-- David