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Minimum permissions to view VM Storage Policies

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I saw this question from Aaron yesterday while scrolling through my Twitter timeline and after answering it, I figure I write a quick blog post about it in case this comes up in the future.

There are two specific privileges around managing VM Storage Policies: Update and View as shown in the screenshot below. If you only want to allow users to be able to see all the available VM Storage Policies that have been defined, then you just need to create a new Role with only the "View" privilege.

Secondly, it is important to note that VM Storage Policies are defined and managed at a vCenter Server level. This means that when you assign the permission, it needs to be applied at the root vCenter Server level (you do not have to propagate it down wards if you do not wish to show the rest of the vSphere Inventory). Global permissions are not required, but if you have multiple vCenter Servers which are all part of the same SSO Domain, you may want to consider this if users are allowed to login to any one of the vCenter Servers.

Once you have assigned the permission to either the user or group, then you can have them login using either the vSphere Web Client or using the SBPM APIs and you will now be able to view all defined VM Storage Policies.

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The results for the Top 25 Virtualization Blog for 2016 run by Eric Siebert over at vsphere-land.com was just announced yesterday. You can find the results here or watch the full recording below. It was a very, very close race this year for the #1 spot but my fellow colleague Duncan Epping was still able to maintain his position as the #1 Virtualization Blogger voted by the community. I have to admit, It would have been really nice to finally de-throne the king after all these years 😉 but I am still very humbled and honored to have been in the running and maintaining my #2 position for the third year in a row. I am also very happy to announce that virtuallyGhetto was voted as the Top Scripting Blog for the 4th year in a row!

At the end of the day, I truly believe that our overall VMware/Virtualization community is made stronger through all the content that is created, the collaboration and engagement that each and every one of us brings. Lastly, I would like to take this moment and thank everyone who voted for virtuallyGhetto and thank you to all my readers who have engaged and supported me in this past year. I really do appreciate it. I Look forward to continue sharing with the community and we will try again next year 🙂