'vCenter Server 4' Linked mode operation

[chriskringle]

I have briefly testet linked mode, and found one big problem (for me anyway). It seems there is no way to give a user only access to a specific linked VC. If the user has no permission on the 'master' VC a permission error is displayed. I want regular users of a linked VC to not know anything about the 'master' VC or other linked VC's.

Anyone have insight into this issue?

[bulletprooffool]

You only need to give them read only rights at the very source - no need to give them any further rights

You can then control permissions on each item in the VC to whatever level you like.

They basically need the ability to authenticate - set the permissions at the 'hosts anmd clusters' level and remove any rights on the tree down

[VirtualNoitall]

How about just pointing these users at the web gui on their particular VC? Uness there is functionality missing in the Web GUI, which I have not come across, this seems like a good option. The Web Gui has no knowledge of linked mode.