It turns out another group had created another administrator account and removed administrator access from the root account. /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml shows that the root user has lo...
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It turns out another group had created another administrator account and removed administrator access from the root account. /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml shows that the root user has lost the 'Administrator' role: <ACEData id="10"> <ACEDataEntity>ha-folder-root</ACEDataEntity> <ACEDataId>10</ACEDataId> <ACEDataIsGroup>false</ACEDataIsGroup> <ACEDataPropagate>true</ACEDataPropagate> <ACEDataRoleId>-5</ACEDataRoleId> <ACEDataUser>root</ACEDataUser> </ACEData> When ACEDataRoleId is set to '-1' this indicates Administrator. In your case, the Role has been set to -5 which is not a defined role and likely hardened to do nothing.