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AUTOMATING VCENTER SERVER DEPLOYMENT AND CONFIGURATION
FIGURE 1.2 vCenter Server Privileges
Roles are
listed here
Privileges are
listed here
How many privileges are there?  ink of any action you have ever performed in
the vCenter Client.  ink about the actions you have not yet come across or used
in your everyday job. Now add them up, and you will have some idea of how many
privileges there are in vCenter Server. Luckily, we are able to use PowerCLI to
come up with a scienti c answer for this question. You can easily list all privileges
available to assign to a user through vCenter Server using the
Get-VIPrivilege
cmdlet.
[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> Get-VIPrivilege | Select Name, Description
Name Description
---- -----------
Anonymous The only privilege held by sessions ...
View Visibility without read access to an...
Read Grants read access to an entity
Manage custom attributes Add, remove, and rename custom attri...
Set custom attribute Set the value of a custom attribute ...
Log event Log a user-defined event on an object
Cancel task Cancel a running task
Licenses Manage licenses
Diagnostics Export diagnostic data
Settings Edit global settings
Act as vCenter Server Act as the vCenter Server
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