Installation guide

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to VMware ESX Server

Set user and group

permissions for the owner of

a virtual machine.

Log into the management interface and click Manage Files. Navigate

to the configuration file (.vmx) of the virtual machine. Click the

check box next to the virtual machine’s configuration file, and click

Edit Properties. Choose read, write, and execute properties for the

owner of the virtual machine, and choose read and execute privileges

for the owner’s group, then click OK. Similarly, set read and write

permissions for the owner on the virtual machine’s virtual disk (.dsk)

file. (Note that read permissions for a virtual disk file are sufficient if

the virtual disk is nonpersistent).

See Setting Permissions for Owners of Virtual Machines on page 166 and

Using Disk Modes on page 151.

Be sure that the same user owns both the virtual machine’s

configuration and virtual disk file, and this user has full access

privileges for both files.

Set user and group

permissions to view a virtual

machine in the Status

Monitor page of the

management interface.

For a user to see a virtual machine in the management interface, the

user, or a group to which the user belongs, must have read access to

that virtual machine.

See Setting Permissions for Owners of Virtual Machines on page 166.

Set user permissions to

connect to a virtual machine

through the remote console.

For a user to connect to and power on a virtual machine in the

remote console the user, or a group to which the user belongs, must

have read and execute access to that virtual machine’s configuration

file. Also, the user must have execute (x) permission on all parent

directories.

Setting Permissions for Owners of Virtual Machines on page 166.

Configure your SNMP agent. ESX Server ships with an SNMP agent that allows you to monitor the

health of the physical machine where ESX Server is running and of

virtual machines running on it.

See Configuring the SNMP Agent on page 231 and Configuring the ESX

Server Agent through the VMware Management Interface on page 271

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