Get-Stat Permission to perform this operation was denied.

[hcaken]

I can view performance metrics in vsphere web access and pull vm information using get-view but when I try to use get-stat I receive the following error.

Get-Stat Permission to perform this operation was denied. Required privilege 'System.Read' on managed object with id 'Folder-group-d1'. 

I am not an admin in this VMSphere environment but I have been told by the admins I do have access. Is anyone able to tell me what permissions/roles could be missing so that I can take them back to the admins and have them test this. I only have access to a set of folders and vm clients. So I will not be able to be set as an admin. This is a corporate environment so that is not possible.

[LucD]

That is the root folder of your vSphere environment.

It looks like your admins didn't give you a role on the top level (the vCenter entry).

A Read-Only should be sufficient to retrieve statistics.

[hcaken]

Sorry, I did not get an alert this was answered. So is this the only option? I can see perf data permissions without this option but powercli requires it?  That seems odd.

[LucD]

Not sure what you mean by "I can see perf data permissions", but the error you mentioned is quite clear.

You are missing system.read on the root folder.