I have created a 4 different roles with below privileges for deployment of OVF for developers .
But during the deployment of OVF wizard at storage select window I am seeing error " An error occurred communicating with vcenter server " Not sure what permission I am missing here.
ParentGroup | Description | Id | Name |
System | The only privilege held by sessions which have not logged in | System.Anonymous | Anonymous |
System | Visibility without read access to an entity. This is assigned implicitly by the system, if read privileges are assigned at lower levels in the inventory | System.View | View |
System | Grants read access to an entity | System.Read | Read |
Datastore | Browse a datastore | Datastore.Browse | Browse datastore |
Datastore | Allocate space on a datastore | Datastore.AllocateSpace | Allocate space |
Network | Configure a network | Network.Config | Configure |
Network | Assign network to virtual machine, host service console, VMkernel virtual NIC or physical NIC | Network.Assign | Assign network |
Local operations | Create a virtual machine without registering it | Host.Local.CreateVM | Create virtual machine |
Inventory | Create a new virtual machine or template | VirtualMachine.Inventory.Create | Create new |
Interaction | Power On or resume a virtual machine | VirtualMachine.Interact.PowerOn | Power On |
Interaction | Power Off a virtual machine | VirtualMachine.Interact.PowerOff | Power Off |
Interaction | Reset (power cycle) a virtual machine | VirtualMachine.Interact.Reset | Reset |
Interaction | Answer a virtual machine run-time question | VirtualMachine.Interact.AnswerQuestion | Answer question |
Interaction | Interact with the virtual machine console | VirtualMachine.Interact.ConsoleInteract | Console interaction |
Interaction | Connect/disconnect media and network devices | VirtualMachine.Interact.DeviceConnection | Device connection |
Interaction | Configure a different media for virtual CD-ROMs | VirtualMachine.Interact.SetCDMedia | Configure CD media |
Interaction | Install VMware Tools (or mount/unmount the tools installer image) | VirtualMachine.Interact.ToolsInstall | VMware Tools install |
Configuration | Rename a virtual machine | VirtualMachine.Config.Rename | Rename |
Configuration | Browse for and attach an existing virtual disk | VirtualMachine.Config.AddExistingDisk | Add existing disk |
Configuration | Make advanced configuration changes | VirtualMachine.Config.AdvancedConfig | Advanced |
Provisioning | Allow random access to disk files through a separate NFC connection | VirtualMachine.Provisioning.DiskRandomAccess | Allow disk access |
Provisioning | Allow read-only random access to disk files through a separate NFC connection | VirtualMachine.Provisioning.DiskRandomRead | Allow read-only disk access |
Resource | Assign a virtual machine to a resource pool | Resource.AssignVMToPool | Assign virtual machine to resource pool |
Resource | Assign a vApp to a resource pool | Resource.AssignVAppToPool | Assign vApp to resource pool |
vApp | Import vApp | VApp.Import | Import |
vApp | Assign resource pool to vApp | VApp.AssignResourcePool | Assign resource pool |
vApp | Create a new vApp | VApp.Create | Create |
Profile-driven storage | Profile-driven storage view | StorageProfile.View | Profile-driven storage view |
Profile-driven storage | Profile-driven storage update | StorageProfile.Update | Profile-driven storage update |
System | The only privilege held by sessions which have not logged in | System.Anonymous | Anonymous |
System | Visibility without read access to an entity. This is assigned implicitly by the system, if read privileges are assigned at lower levels in the inventory | System.View | View |
System | Grants read access to an entity | System.Read | Read |
Local operations | Create a virtual machine without registering it | Host.Local.CreateVM | Create virtual machine |
Inventory | Create a new virtual machine or template | VirtualMachine.Inventory.Create | Create new |
Resource | Assign a virtual machine to a resource pool | Resource.AssignVMToPool | Assign virtual machine to resource pool |
Resource | Assign a vApp to a resource pool | Resource.AssignVAppToPool | Assign vApp to resource pool |
vApp | Import vApp | VApp.Import | Import |
vApp | Create a new vApp | VApp.Create | Create |
System | The only privilege held by sessions which have not logged in | System.Anonymous | Anonymous |
System | Visibility without read access to an entity. This is assigned implicitly by the system, if read privileges are assigned at lower levels in the inventory | System.View | View |
System | Grants read access to an entity | System.Read | Read |
Datastore | Browse a datastore | Datastore.Browse | Browse datastore |
Datastore | Allocate space on a datastore | Datastore.AllocateSpace | Allocate space |
System | The only privilege held by sessions which have not logged in | System.Anonymous | Anonymous |
System | Visibility without read access to an entity. This is assigned implicitly by the system, if read privileges are assigned at lower levels in the inventory | System.View | View |
System | Grants read access to an entity | System.Read | Read |
Network | Configure a network | Network.Config | Configure |
Network | Assign network to virtual machine, host service console, VMkernel virtual NIC or physical NIC | Network.Assign | Assign network |
Hi ,
Pleas provide below permission also to the existing role and check