Creating a Special Role on vCenter and Assigning the Role to a New User

To achieve this, follow the steps below:

Login to a system on which the vSphere Client is installed.
Launch the client. When Figure 1 appears, login to vCenter using administrator credentials.

Figure 1 : Logging into the vSphere client
Figure 2 then appears.

Figure 2 : The vSphere client
Click on the Menu option indicated by Figure 2. A menu depicted by Figure 3 will then drop down. From the menu, select the Administration option.

Figure 3 : Selecting the Administration option
Figure 4 will then appear. From the options listed in the left panel of Figure 4, select Users and Groups by clicking on it.

Figure 4 : Selecting the Users and Groups option
The right panel will then change to display a Users and Groups section (see Figure 5). Here, select the Domain in which you want to add a new user, and then click on ADD to begin.

Figure 5 : Clicking on ADD to add a new user
Figure 6 will then appear. Provide the Username and Password of the new user in Figure 6, and confirm the password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box. Then, click on the ADD button in Figure 6 to save the details of the new user.

Figure 6 : Adding a new user
Figure 7 will then appear. From the left panel of Figure 7, select the Roles option.

Figure 7 : Selecting the Roles option
The right panel will then change to display a Roles section (see Figure 8). Click on the '+' button in Figure 8 to create a new role.

Figure 8 : Clicking on the '+' button in the Roles section
Figure 9 will then appear. Using Figure 9, you can indicate what permissions you want to grant to any user who is assigned the new role. For that, first, from the left panel of Figure 9, choose the Global category of privileges. The right panel will then display all the privileges/permissions that are grouped under the Global category. Select the Diagnostics permission from this list by clicking on the check box alongside that permission (see Figure 9).

Figure 9 : Selecting the Diagnostics permission under the Global category of privileges
Next, select the Host category from the left panel, and click on the Change settings check box in the right panel (see Figure 10).

Figure 10 : Selecting the Change settings permission from the Host category
Next, pick the Sessions category from the left panel, and choose the View and stop sessions privilege from the right panel (see Figure 11).

Figure 11 : Selecting the View and stop sessions privilege under the Sessions category
Finally, click the Next button in Figure 11 to proceed. Figure 12 will then appear, where you will have to specify the Role name. Finally, click the Finish button in Figure 12, so that a new role with the specified name is created.

Figure 12 : Specifying the name of the new role
When Figure 13 appears, click on the Global Permissions option in the left panel of Figure 13.

Figure 13 : Selecting the Global Permissions option
In the Global Permissions section that opens in the right panel, click on the '+' button (see Figure 14).

Figure 14 : Clicking on the '+' button in the Global Permissions page
From the Domain drop-down in Figure 15 that appears next, select the domain in which you created a new user previously. Then, in the User/Group text box, specify the name of the user you created. Make sure you provide the same Username you specified at the time of user creation (see Figure 6). Alternatively, use the 'magnifying glass' icon against User/Group to browse for the user name. Next, from the Role drop-down, pick the new role you created. This assigns the chosen Role and all permissions included in that role to the specified User/Group.

Figure 15 : Assigning the new role to the new user
Finally, click the OK button in Figure 15.

You can now proceed to configure the ESX USER and ESX PASSWORD parameters of all eG tests with the Username and Password (respectively) of the new user you created (see Figure 6).