Virtual Machine Provisioning privileges control activities related to deploying and customizing virtual machines.
You can set this privilege at different levels in the hierarchy. For example, if you set a privilege at the folder level, you can propagate the privilege to one or more objects within the folder. The object listed in the Required On column must have the privilege set, either directly or inherited.
| Privilege Name | Description | Required On |
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| Allows opening a disk on a virtual machine for random read and write access. Used mostly for remote disk mounting. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows operations on files associated with a virtual machine, including vmx, disks, logs, and nvram. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows opening a disk on a virtual machine for random read access. Used mostly for remote disk mounting. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows read operations on files associated with a virtual machine, including vmx, disks, logs, and nvram. |
Root host or vCenter Server |
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| Allows write operations on files associated with a virtual machine, including vmx, disks, logs, and nvram. |
Root host or vCenter Server |
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| Allows cloning of a template. |
Templates |
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| Allows cloning of an existing virtual machine and allocation of resources. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows creation of a new template from a virtual machine. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows customization of a virtual machine’s guest operating system without moving the virtual machine. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows deployment of a virtual machine from a template. |
Templates |
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| Allows marking an existing powered off virtual machine as a template. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows marking an existing template as a virtual machine. |
Templates |
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| Allows creation, modification, or deletion of customization specifications. |
Root vCenter Server |
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| Allows promote operations on a virtual machine's disks. |
Virtual machines |
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| Allows reading a customization specification. |
Virtual machines |
