This script will apply a permission which contains a username and role to a specific datastore.
Requirements:
vCenter 4.0
ESX(i) 3.5 or 4.0
vSphere SDK for Perl or vMA 4.0
Default roles in vCenter (you can use your own):
Sample Execution:
Requirements:
vCenter 4.0
ESX(i) 3.5 or 4.0
vSphere SDK for Perl or vMA 4.0
Default roles in vCenter (you can use your own):
NoAccess
Anonymous
View
ReadOnly
Admin
VirtualMachinePowerUser
VirtualMachineUser
ResourcePoolAdministrator
VMwareConsolidatedBackupUser
DatastoreConsumer
NetworkConsumer
Sample Execution:
[vi-admin@scofield ~]$ ./setUserDatastorePermission.pl --server reflex.primp-industries.com --username primp --datastore himalaya-iSCSI-starwind.esx-devCluster --user williamlam --rolename DatastoreConsumer
Searching for rolename: DatastoreConsumer...
Applying role: "DatastoreConsumer" to user: "williamlam" on datastore: "himalaya-iSCSI-starwind.esx-devCluster"
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Nov 19, 2009 9:42 AM
lamw says:
in response to: Doug Clark
Thanks for the info, I'll update the doc to reflect this. ========================================================================= William Lam VMware vExpert 2009 VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/ Twitter: @lamw vGhetto Script Repository Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks) Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators VMware Developer Comuunity  If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful". |
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Note that this script won't work on vCenter 2.5 because that version did not support assigning permissions on Datastore objects.