If the need presents itself for a user account to be created for vRanger that has less than admin access to the ESXi 5.0 environment.
Use the following permissions:
· Datastore
- Allocate space
- Browse datastore
- Low level file operations
- Remove file
· Global
- Licenses
- Log event
· Host\Inventory
- Modify cluster
· Host\Local Operations
- Create virtual machine
- Reconfigure virtual machine
· Network
- Assign network
- Configure
· Resource
- Assign vApp to resource pool
- Assign virtual machine to resource pool
· vApp
- Add virtual machine
- Assign resource pool
- Create
- Delete
- Import
- Move
- Power off
- Power On
- Rename
· Virtual machine\Configuration
- <Select All>
· Virtual Machine\Interaction
- Configure CD media
- Configure floppy media
- Console interaction
- Device connection
- Power Off
- Power On
- VMware Tools install
· Virtual Machine\Inventory
- Create new
- Remove
· Virtual Machine\Provisioning
- Allow disk access
- Allow read-only disk access
- Allow virtual machine download
- Allow virtual machine files upload
- Clone template
· Virtual Machine\State
- <Select All>
