Required VMware Virtual Center Privileges

This section lists the minimum privileges required for the GigaVUE‑FM user in Virtual Center. You assign privileges to Virtual Center users by selecting Administration from the left navigation pane. Then select Roles under the Access Control. Roles should be applied at the vSphere Virtual Center level and not the Data Center or Host levels.

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

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. This prevents 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