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DEFINE USERS AND THEIR PRIVILEGES 17
Install, Con gure, and Manage the vSphere Environment
PART I
Capacity planning Discover and convert physical host t...
Script action Schedule an external script action
Proxy Add or remove endpoints to or from t...
Disable methods Operations are disabled in vCenter
Enable methods Operations are enabled in vCenter
Service managers Access the directory service
Health Access the health of vCenter group
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We purposely truncated the output listing due to the large number of privileges
available. You can count the number of privileges available for assigning to your
roles and users or groups by using the Measure-Object cmdlet:
[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> Get-VIPrivilege | Measure-Object
Count : 266
Average :
Sum :
Maximum :
Minimum :
Property :
You can also use the Get-VIPrivilege cmdlet to show only the privileges avail-
able to certain sets of objects like a host:
[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> Get-VIPrivilege -Name *Host*
Name Id
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Host operation DVSwitch.HostOp
Add standalone host Host.Inventory.AddStandaloneHost
Add host to cluster Host.Inventory.AddHostToCluster
Remove host Host.Inventory.
RemoveHostFromClu...
Move cluster or standalone host Host.Inventory.MoveCluster
Move host Host.Inventory.MoveHost
Add host to vCenter Host.Local.InstallAgent
Host USB device VirtualMachine.Config.
HostUSBDevice
Host Host
Host profile Profile
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