Creating an ESX user account
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Creating an ESX user account

If you want to assign the role that you created in the section Creating a role with customized privileges for VMwareDisks agent, to an existing user, skip this section. Proceed to the section Assigning a role to an ESX user account.

If you want to create a new user account to assign the new role to, perform the steps described in this section:

To add a local ESX user

  1. Using the VMware vSphere Client, log on to the ESX host, and navigate to Home > Inventory.
  2. In the left pane, click the ESX host and in the right pane, click Local Users & Groups.

    The Users list appears by default.

  3. If the Users list is not displayed, to view the Users list, on the View bar, click Users.
  4. To add a new user, right-click any existing user, and click Add.
  5. In the Add New User panel, specify a Login and Password to define a new user account for configuring VMwareDisks resources.

    To confirm the password, retype the password.

    To define the new user account, you can also specify a descriptive User Name and user ID (UID). If you do not specify the UID, the vCenter server automatically assigns one.

  6. Click OK.
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