Creating a role with customized privileges for VMwareDisks agent
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Creating a role with customized privileges for VMwareDisks agent

This section provides the steps to create a role with adequate privileges that the VMwareDisks agent can use in an ESX cluster. The assigned privileges do not include administrative or root user privileges:

To create a role

  1. Using the VMware vSphere Client, log on to the ESX host, and navigate to Home > Administration > Roles.
  2. Click Add Role.
  3. On the Add New Role panel, specify a name for the new role. For example, "VMwareDisks Resources Manager".
  4. To select privileges for the VMwareDisks Resources Manager role, in the Privileges tree, click the following check boxes.

    • All Privileges > Datastore > Low level file operations.

    • All Privileges > Virtual Machine > Configuration > Adding existing disk.

    • All Privileges > Virtual Machine > Change resource.

    • All Privileges > Virtual Machine > Configuration > Remove disk.

  5. Click OK.
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