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Privileges of the “Resources” section

Essence

Privilege group

Privilege Name

Brief description of the privilege

Cluster

Create

create_cluster

Enables the creation of new clusters on the system.

create_host

Enables the creation of new servers on the system.

create_local_storage

Enables the creation of new local storage in the system.

Read

read

Allows you to browse the cluster

read_host

Allows you to view the list of hosts

read_local_storage

Allows you to view a list of local storage

read_network

Allows you to view all network objects in the cluster context.

Edit

provide_admin_access

Allows users or groups to be added to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify entries from the administrative ACL.

update_cluster

Allows you to modify a cluster

create_cluster_datastore_connection

Allows you to create a datastore and cluster connection.

update_host

Allows the host to be changed

update_local_storage

Allows changing the local storage

Delete

delete_host

Allows deleting a host

delete_cluster

Allows deleting a cluster

delete_local_storage

Permits deletion of local storage.

delete_cluster_datastore_connection

Allows you to delete the datastore and cluster connection.

Storage

Create

create_datastore

Allows you to create a datastore

Read

read

Allows you to browse the datastore

Edit

provide_admin_access

Allows users or groups to be added to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify administrative ACL entries.

heal_connection

Allows you to re-establish the datastore and cluster connection.

update_datastore

Allows you to modify the datastore

create_cluster_datastore_connection

Allows you to create a datastore and cluster connection.

Delete

delete_datastore

Allows you to delete a datastore

delete_cluster_datastore_connection

Allows you to delete the datastore and cluster connection.

Virtual machines

Create

create_vm

Allows you to create new virtual machines.

create_base_image

Allows you to create a new base image of a virtual machine.

Read

read

Allows you to browse the virtual machine

Edit

provide_admin_access

Allows users or groups to be added to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify entries from the administrative ACL.

update_vm

Allows you to modify virtual machines

backup_vm

Allows you to back up virtual machines.

connect_vm

Allows connection to virtual machines

power_managment

Allows you to start, stop, and restart virtual machines.

Delete

delete_vm

Allows you to delete virtual machines

Distributed Switch

Create

create_dswitch

Allows you to create a dswitch

create_uplink

Allows you to create an uplink

create_internal_adapter

Allows to create internal adapters

create_port_group

Allows to create port groups

create_qos_rule

Allows to create QoS rules

create_bond

Allows you to create a bond

Read

read

Allows to view and use dswitch

Edit

provide_admin_access

Allows users or groups to be added to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify entries from the administrative ACL.

update_dswitch

Allows you to modify dswitch

update_uplink

Allows to modify uplink

update_internal_adapter

Allows modification of internal adapters

update_port_group

Allows to modify port groups

update_qos_rule

Allows to modify QoS rules

Delete

delete_dswitch

Allows to delete dswitch

delete_uplink

Allows to delete uplink

delete_internal_adapter

Allows to delete internal adapters

delete_port_group

Allows to delete port groups

delete_qos_rule

Allows you to delete QoS rules.

delete_bond

Allows you to delete a bond

DHCP pools

Create

create_dhcp_pool

Allows you to create DHCP pools

Read

read

Allows you to view DHCP pools

Edit

provide_admin_access

Allows users or groups to be added to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify administrative ACL entries.

Delete

delete_dhcp_pool

Allows you to delete a list of DHCP pools

Images

Create

create_image

Allows you to create an image

Read

read

Allows you to view the image

Edit

create_vm

Allows the image to be used as a source for a virtual machine.

update_image

Allows you to modify the image list.

provide_admin_access

Allows users or groups to be added to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify entries from the administrative ACL.

Delete

delete_image

Allows deleting an image

Backups

Create

backup_job

Allows you to create a backup

restore_job

Allows you to restore virtual machines from a backup.

Read

read_backup_job

Allows you to view the backup job.

read_restore_job

Allows you to view a list of restore jobs.

read_unattached_backup_checkpoint

Allows you to view a list of unattached backup checkpoints.

Edit

update_backup_job

Allows you to modify a backup job.

provide_admin_access

Allows you to add users or groups to the local administrative ACL list.

update_admin_access

Allows you to modify entries from the administrative ACL.

run_backup_job

Allows you to run a backup job.

Delete

delete_backup_job

Allows you to delete a backup job.

delete_backup_checkpoint

Allows you to delete a backup checkpoint.

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