Specifications

5 In the Assigned Role pane, do one of the following:
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To assign specific network privileges defined in a role by your company, choose the custom role.
NOTE The Read-only propagating permission on a datacenter, in addition to all permissions you
have set, will be kept intact after the upgrade.
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To migrate read-only nonpropagating datacenter permissions to propagating network permissions,
choose Network Consumer (sample). This role assigns the Assign Network privilege to users,
which is required so that users can associate a virtual machine's vNIC or host's NIC with the
network on which this role is granted. This requires the appropriate permissions for the
assignment are also granted on the virtual machines or hosts.
6 Select Propagate to Child Objects.
7 In the Users and Groups pane, click Add.
8 Select the users and groups for whom to add the role.
To select multiple names, control-click each additional name.
9 Click OK.
All users are added to the Users and Groups list for this role.
10 Click OK.
New networks that you create are added under the datacenter by default.
NOTE You need to set up permissions for new networks that you create. By default, new networks are
created under the datacenter folder in the inventory. You can move it into a network folder, as appropriate.
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