jomahoney
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

This occurs because the relationship between distributed switch and portgroup is not a direct parent-child relationship as can be seen from the managed object browser of the vCenter Server i.e. both are child objects of the parent 'network' folder.

From https://<vc_fqdn>/mob if you browse to 'content -> rootFolder -> childEntity (select relevant datacenter) -> networkFolder' you can see that childType is Folder, Network and DistributedVirtualSwitch so they are all child objects of the parent folder rather than each other.

The workaround is as mentioned above to
1. Create a new network folder
2. Move the vDS inside this new network folder.
3. Add permission at network folder level with box "Propagate to children" checked