Required VMware Virtual Center Privileges

This topic lists the minimum privileges required for the GigaVUE‑FM user in Virtual Center.

You assign privileges to Virtual Center users. To assign privileges, from the left pane, select Administration and go to Access Control > Roles.
Important! You must apply the roles at the vSphere Virtual Center level, not at the data center or Host levels.

The following table lists the minimum permissions required for GigaVUE‑FM to manage the virtual center user with the specified roles:

Category

Required Privilege

Purpose

Datastore

Allocate space

V Series Node Deployment

Distributed Switch

VSPAN Operation

VDS Tapping

Folder

Create Folder

V Series Node Deployment

Host

Configuration

Network Configuration

VSS Tapping

Inventory

Modify Cluster

Pin V Series Node to the host in cluster configurations to prevent automatic migration.

Network

Assign network
Configure

●

V Series Node Deployment/VSS Tapping

●

V Series Node Deployment

Resource

Assign virtual machine to resource pool

V Series Node Deployment

vApp

●

Import

●

vApp instance configuration

●

vApp application configuration

V Series Node Deployment

Virtual machine

Configuration

Add new disk
Add or remove device
Modify device settings
Rename

V Series Node Deployment

V Series Node Deployment/VSS Tapping

Interaction

Connect devices
Power on
Power Off
Reset

V Series Node Deployment

Inventory

■

Create from existing

■

Remove

V Series Node Deployment

Provisioning

■

Clone virtual machine

V Series Node Deployment