About the user privileges for multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment


About the user privileges for multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment
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The following table lists the privileges that are required for the multi-pathing discovery on the ESX server:

Table:

Privilege	Is it optional	What if the privilege is not given
Datastore\Browse Datastore	Yes	This flag indicates if datastores need to be browsed for discovering the details of virtual disks. Skipping the datastore browsing causes following differences in VMware discovery as compared to the previous versions of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager: Only those virtual disks are discovered that are attached to some VMware virtual machine. Some of the virtual disks attributes such as Physical Allocation, Used Capacity, % Utilization, and thin/non-thin are not discovered.
Host\CIM\CIM Interaction	No. However, it is required only for the ESX servers that run VxDMP. It is not required if you don't have any ESX running VxDMP.	VxDMP tunables discovery does not happen. The discovery of VxDMP licenses does not happen. DMP path maintenance operations in Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager will not be able to operate on the disk paths in the ESX servers that are managed by VxDMP.
Host\Configuration\Change Settings	Yes	Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager cannot discover the version of VxDMP running inside the VMware ESX server. There is no effect on the ESX servers that are not running VxDMP.

Privilege

Is it optional

What if the privilege is not given

Datastore\Browse Datastore

Yes

This flag indicates if datastores need to be browsed for discovering the details of virtual disks.

Skipping the datastore browsing causes following differences in VMware discovery as compared to the previous versions of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager:

Only those virtual disks are discovered that are attached to some VMware virtual machine.
Some of the virtual disks attributes such as Physical Allocation, Used Capacity, % Utilization, and thin/non-thin are not discovered.

Host\CIM\CIM Interaction

No.

However, it is required only for the ESX servers that run VxDMP. It is not required if you don't have any ESX running VxDMP.

VxDMP tunables discovery does not happen.
The discovery of VxDMP licenses does not happen.
DMP path maintenance operations in Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager will not be able to operate on the disk paths in the ESX servers that are managed by VxDMP.

Host\Configuration\Change Settings

Yes

Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager cannot discover the version of VxDMP running inside the VMware ESX server. There is no effect on the ESX servers that are not running VxDMP.

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