Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Virtual Machine
Controls the manipulation of VMs in the vCenter Server inventory,
including the ability to create, delete, or connect to the remote console of a VM; controls the
power state of a VM; controls the ability to change l oppy and CD media and to manipulate
templates, among other privileges.
Distributed Virtual Port (dvPort) Group
Controls who can create, delete, and modify dis-
tributed virtual port groups on distributed virtual switches.
vApp
Controls the coni guration and management of vApps, such as the ability to add VMs
to a vApp; clone, create, delete, export, or import a vApp; power on or power off the vApp;
and view the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) environment.
Inventory Service
Controls who can access the tagging capabilities of the vCenter
Inventory Service.
vService
Controls the ability to create, remove, and modify vService dependencies with
vApp s.
How these various privileges are assigned to roles is what really matters. As you saw earlier,
vCenter Server ships with some default roles already dei ned. Some of these—namely, the No
Access, Read-Only, and Administrator roles—are fairly well understood and cannot be modi-
i ed. The other predei ned roles are listed in Table 8.1 along with the privileges that are assigned
to each role by default.
Table 8.1:
Table of privileges for default roles
Predefined Role
Assigned Privileges
➢
Virtual Machine Power User
Datastore
Browse Datastore
➢
Global
Cancel Task
Scheduled Task
➢
Create Tasks, Modif y Task, Remove Task, Run Task
➢
➢
Add Existing Disk, Add New Disk,
Add or Remove Device, Advanced, Change CPU Count, Change Resource,
Disk Lease, Memory, Modify Device Settings, Remove Disk, Rename,
Reset Guest Information, Settings, Upgrade Virtual Hardware
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Confi guration
➢
➢
Acquire Guest Control Ticket, Answer
Question, Confi g ure CD Med ia, Confi g ure Floppy Med ia, Console
Interaction, Device Connection, Power Off , Power On, Reset, Suspend,
VMware Tools Install
Virtual Machine
Interaction
➢
➢
Create Snapshot, Remove Snapshot, Rename
Snapshot, Revert To Snapshot
State
➢
Virtual Machine User
Cancel Task
Scheduled Task
Global
➢
Create Tasks, Modif y Task, Remove Task, Run Task
➢
➢
Virtual Machine
Answer Question, Confi gure CD Media,
Confi gure Floppy Media, Console Interaction, Device Connection, Power
Off , Power On, Reset, Suspend, VMware Tools Install
Interaction
