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AUTOMATING VCENTER SERVER DEPLOYMENT AND CONFIGURATION
VirtualMachinePowerUser Provides virtual machine interaction...
VirtualMachineUser Provides virtual machine interaction...
ResourcePoolAdministrator Supports delegated resource management
VMwareConsolidatedBackupUser Used by the Consolidated Backup utility
DatastoreConsumer Assigned to datastores to allow crea...
NetworkConsumer Assigned to networks to allow associ...
Now that you know that a role is a group of privileges and you’ve learned to use
the Get-VIPrivilege and Get-VIRole cmdlets, we want to introduce you
to New-VIRole . You can use the New-VIRole cmdlet with Get-VIPrivilege to
de ne a new role. You can de ne your own group of privileges, which can later be
assigned to your users. An example is shown in Listing 1.5; you can see the results
in the vCenter Client, as shown in Figure 1.4.
LISTING 1.5 Creating a new role
New-VIRole `
-Name ‘New Custom Role’ `
-Privilege (Get-VIPrivilege `
-PrivilegeGroup “Interaction”,”Provisioning”)
FIGURE 1.4 New roles
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