To begin metering with vCloud Usage Meter, you must add at least one vCenter Server instance. You must assign additional profile-driven storage privileges to your read-only vCenter Server user beforehand.

Prerequisites

  • The vSphere administrator is not assigned with conflicting vCenter Server roles.
  • You must assign the vCenter Server permissions at either a Global level or to an object in the object hierarchy.

For full information and best practices about authorization in vSphere, see vSphere Permissions and User Management Tasks in the vSphere Security guide.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client with your administrator credentials.
  2. Navigate to Administration > Roles.
  3. Click Create role.
  4. Enter a name for the new role.
  5. Set the storage permissions.
    • For vCenter Server versions 8.x, select VM storage policies > View VM storage policies
    • For vCenter Server versions 7.x, select Profile-driven storage > Profile-driven storage view.
  6. Assign the new role to the user which you use for vCloud Usage Meter collection.

Results

The server adds read-only vCenter Server permissions to the user.