About assigning privileges to VMwareDisks agent

The application monitoring configuration for Cluster Server (VCS) agents in a VMware virtual environment involves the VMwareDisks agent. In the event of an application failure, the VMwareDisks agent sends a disk-detach request to the ESX host, and then attaches the disk to the failover target system.

To enable the VMwareDisks agent to communicate with the ESX host, during the application monitoring configuration workflow, you must specify an ESX user account. The specified ESX user account must have administrative privileges, or should be a root user. If the ESX user account does not have these privileges, you must create a role, add certain privileges to the created role, and then assign the role to the ESX user account.

If you do not want to assign the role to an existing ESX user account, you can create a new ESX user account, and then assign the role. You can further integrate the new ESX user account with an Active Directory-based authentication service if available in the VMware environment. The VMwareDisks agent can then use the same user account to perform its tasks on all ESX hosts linked to the Active Directory.