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At a minimum, the user account must have Read privileges and the Read privileges must be assigned at the
Datacenter or vCenter Server level. If the Read privileges are assigned to selected ESX hosts or individual
virtual machines, vCenter Operations Manager cannot show metrics for their parent objects. For example, if
the user account has Read privileges only for an ESX host, you cannot view metrics for the parent datastore,
cluster, or datacenter of that ESX host in vCenter Operations Manager.
vCenter Adapter Resource Identification
The
vCenter adapter uses certain resource identifiers. You must specify resource identifiers when you reference
vCenter adapter resources with the vCenter Operations Manager API.
Adapter Kind
The adapter kind for the vCenter adapter is VMware Adapter and the identifier key is VMWARE.
Adapter Instance Resource Kind
The adapter instance resource kind for a vCenter adapter instance is vCenter Server and the identifier key is
VMwareAdapter Instance.
A vCenter adapter instance resource has a specific identifier key.
Table 1-1. vCenter Adapter Instance Resource Identifier Key
Key Part of Uniqueness Default Name (en) Description
VCURL Yes VC Host Host name or IP address of a
vCenter Server host.
Datacenter Resource Kind
The resource kind for a vCenter Server datacenter is Datacenter and the identifier key is Datacenter.
A Datacenter resource has specific identifier keys.
Table 1-2. Datacenter Resource Identifier Keys
Key Part of Uniqueness Default Name (en) Description
VMEntityName No VM Entity Name Name of the datacenter.
VMEntityObjectID Yes VM Entity Object ID vCenter Server object ID for
the datacenter, for example,
datacenter-2.
VMEntityVCID Yes VC ID vCenter Server unique ID.
Cluster Compute Resource Kind
The resource kind for a vCenter Server cluster is Cluster Compute Resource and the identifier key is
ClusterComputeResource.
A Cluster Compute Resource resource has specific identifier keys.
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