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View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
To support View Composer, the vCenter Server user must have privileges in addition to those required to
support View. Create a View Composer role for the vCenter Server user with the View Manager privileges
and these additional privileges.
Table 72. View Composer Privileges
Privilege Group Privileges to Enable
Datastore Allocate space
Browse datastore
Low level file operations
Virtual machine Inventory (all)
Configuration (all)
Snapshot management (all)
In Provisioning:
n
Clone virtual machine
n
Allow disk access
Resource Assign virtual machine to resource pool
The following privilege is required to perform View
Composer rebalance operations.
Migrate powered off virtual machine
Global Enable methods
Disable methods
System tag
The following privilege is required to implement View
Storage Accelerator, which enables ESXi host caching. If
you do not use View Storage Accelerator, the vCenter
Server user does not need this privilege.
Act as vCenter Server
Network (all)
Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
After you install View Connection Server, you must install a product license, add vCenter Servers and View
Composer services to View. You can also allow ESXi hosts to reclaim disk space on linked-clone virtual
machines and configure ESXi hosts to cache virtual machine disk data.
If you install security servers, they are added to View and appear in View Administrator automatically.
View Administrator and View Connection Server
View Administrator provides a management interface for View.
Depending on your View deployment, you use one or more View Administrator interfaces.
n
Use one View Administrator interface to manage the View components that are associated with a
single, standalone View Connection Server instance or a group of replicated View Connection Server
instances.
You can use the host name or IP address of any replicated instance to log in to View Administrator.
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