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Title
Permissions for ESXi 5.5+ with vRanger 7.3+ -
Description
The following is a list of the minimum permissions needed for vRanger 7.3+ to successfully execute all of its features within an ESXi 5.5+ environment. -
Cause
If a situation presents itself where an account is needed to be created for vRanger in an ESXi 5.5 environment with permissions other than admin. -
Resolution
Configure 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
- Profile-driven storage
- Profile-driven storage view
- 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\Service Configuration
- Modify service configuration
- Virtual Machine\Snapshot Management
- <Select All>
- Datastore
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Defect ID
18155 -
Additional Information
Resolves issue where backups start failing after upgrade with blank error. In other words, “Error:” is all that is shown in the user log.