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View service account - permissions in vCenter posted: Nov 5, 2009 12:24 AM

Click to view Chris_S_UK's profile Expert 598 posts since
Feb 20, 2006

The security chap has asked me to investigate if the service account for View can have anything less than Administrator permissions at the root of the vCenter heirarchy.

Has anyone tried reducing the rights of the service account successfully?

We will have dedicated hosts (in a dedicated cluster) for VDI so is it just a case of:

1. Giving the account admin permissions at the level of the Inventory folder (VMs and Templates view) where the VMs will go

2. Giving the accoun admin permissions at the VDI cluster level

?

We are not using Composer, so that simplifies things a bit.

I'm going to give this a try today but would be interested if anyone else has done something similar.

Thanks

Chris

Click to view mittim12's profile Master 955 posts since
Mar 24, 2006
On page 37 of , http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view31_manual.pdf, it says you can assign the View Administrator administrator permissons at the Datacenter or Cluster level where the pools will be created. According to that you should be fine with trying it.


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Click to view mittim12's profile Master 955 posts since
Mar 24, 2006
That link contains the needed permissons to make up your own role. You can try removing/adding and see how minimnal you can make it before things break.

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