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vCenter permissions

kjens — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:40:08 GMT

hi @all,

anyone knows which permissions are in real necessary to connect the vCenter within WFA?

the Installation and Setup Guide mentioned an vCenter admin account.

thx and regards

jens

abhit — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:06:35 GMT

Trying to understand your query.

Are you looking for the "previleges" to be set for an user in vCenter, so that this user

can be specified in WFA while creating the vCenter Datasource?

Is you intent not to provide the admin account details to WFA because of some reason.

Regards

Abhi

kjens — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:13:36 GMT

hi,

you totally right, my customer want to setup an vCenter Admin Account for the WFA connection.

So did you know the specific permissions for that use case?

regards

jens

abhit — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:19:33 GMT

Thanks Jen. Let us do some experiments before replying to you.

Will get back to you shortly.

Regards

Abhi

kjens — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:41:25 GMT

yeah, sounds good ...

thx and regards jens

kjens — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:46:39 GMT

any news regarding the try & error experiment?

thx & regards

jens

sinhaa — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:51:14 GMT

Jens,

Minimum permission needed for a user is System.view on the root folder which is your Datacenter.

VC5.1,5.0,4.X : Minimum required Permission : The User need to be in the built-in Group Administrators

VC5.5 : A User having Role : "READ only" should suffice. It has System.View permission.

sinhaa