Unable to do admin tasks on vSphere 4.

[Galvao]

Another analyst at my company gave USERS permission to all datacenter on vSphere 4. He used the READ-ONLY role to this group.

I am the administrator of entire Vmware enviroment and I can not do nothing, even open the console of a VM. I think I am on both groups (ADMINISTRATORS and USERS) but I can´t change this.

I´m using the root credentials on each host ESX to do my job.

How can I change or remove the permission of USERS ? Directly on database (SQL Express) ? How ?

Help me !

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Not sure about vCenter 4.

However, maybe http://communities.vmware.com/thread/205939 can help

André

[dickybird]

If your account is member of 2 groups. The Least permissions will win.

In this case you got the least priv "READ only" and not administrator.

Tell Analyst to remove you from USERS group

Hope this helps

[bleibold]

Check this out:

http://hagshur.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2471EDB5C3481D6A!324.entry

The first option did not work for me. I had to:

open the VC SQL database and open the table : VPX_ACCESS, then add another row :

ID: 1

Principal : Administrators

Role_ID : -1

ENTITY_ID : 1

FLAG : 3

Restart the VC service (I had to actually reboot the server to get it to work again) and then I was able to get sign on to VC again.

Hope this helps.

Bob