Permissions to only see VMs in 1 resource pool

[jedijeff]

Our Datacenter has about 6 clusters in it. I have been trying to see if there is anyway possible to create roles/permissions to allow a user to only provisioning/deprovision vms. I can do that,,,but I wanted them to only be able to see that resource pool and there folder in Vcenter when the login. It appears I cant do that, and they still have to see "everything".

I stopped there, but my end goal is a user would only be able to see the datastores assigned them also.

This is vsphere4.1,,,I have not tried this on vsphere5 yet.

Thanks!

[nava_thulasi39]

Hi,

In the Resource pool, Permission add the user to whom you want to provide the access. And map with Resource pool Administrator Role.

Make sure, that user/group doesn't have Read-only access in some other Object (Vcenter, Cluster)

Hence the user has only permission to see Resource pool and VMs

[jedijeff]

The problem I have is to create a VM it appears you need Create New under Inventory->Virtual Machine assigned to your Datacenter. This appears to give the ability for the user to view all my clusters, and vms. Even though he wont have rights. I have tried the resource Admin. And without that Datacenter permission the user cannot create a VM. Though he does only see his resource pool.

Thanks.

[nava_thulasi39]

Hi,

Hope, I haven't get your issue.

But Resource pool Administrator has permission to create a VM ( He is the Administrator for the mentioned Resource pool)