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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Roles and permissions

Permissions specify the privileges (the tasks a user can perform) an authenticated user or group has on a specific vCenter Server object and can be assigned at different levels of a hierarchy. For example, you can assign permissions to a cluster object or a data center object. The best practice is to assign only the required permissions, to increase the security and to have a more explicit permissions structure. The use of folders to group objects based on specific permissions makes the vSphere administration simpler.

There are also global permissions that are applied to a global root object to grant the user or group privileges for all objects in all hierarchies. Use global permissions carefully, because you assign ...

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