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3 Click Add user.
4 Click the arrow next to the Select a user text box and select the user that you want to assign a role for.
5 Click the arrow next to the Select a role text box and select a role from the list.
6 (Optional) Select Propagate to all children.
If you set a permission at a vCenter Server level and propagate it to the children objects, the permission
applies to data centers, folders, clusters, hosts, virtual machines, and similar objects in the
vCenter Server instance.
7 Click Add and click Close.
Remove Permissions for a Virtual Machine in the VMware Host Client
To make a user unable to perform tasks on a particular virtual machine, remove the permissions of the user
for that virtual machine.
Removing a permission for a user does not remove the user from the list of users available. It also does not
remove the role from the list of available items. It removes the user and role pair from the selected inventory
object.
Procedure
1 Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2 Right-click a virtual machine from the list and select Permissions.
3 Select a user from the list and click Remove user.
4 Click Close.
Generate a Support Bundle in the VMware Host Client
You can generate a support bundle for the ESXi host that you are logged in on. The support bundle contains
the log les and system information that you can use to diagnose and resolve problems.
Procedure
1 Right-click Host in the VMware Host Client inventory and select Generate support bundle from the
drop-down menu.
A dialog that contains a link to download the bundle pops up when the support bundle is created.
2 (Optional) Click Monitor in the VMware Host Client inventory, click Tasks and click a log bundle from
the list.
You can view the link to the log bundle under the table.
Monitoring an ESXi Host in the VMware Host Client
When you connect to a host using the VMware Host Client, you can monitor the host health status, and
view performance charts, events, tasks, system logs, and notications.
View Charts in the VMware Host Client
When you are logged in to the VMware Host Client, you can view information about resource usage of the
ESXi host that you are managing in line chart form.
To reduce memory consumption, the VMware Host Client only contains statistics for the last hour.
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