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Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions

You're reading from   Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions A complete guide to VxRail Appliance administration and configuration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070485
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Victor Wu Victor Wu
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with VxRail HCI System
2. Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail HCI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: VxRail Installation 4. Section 2: Administration of VxRail
5. Chapter 3: VxRail Administration Overview 6. Chapter 4: VxRail Management Overview 7. Chapter 5: Managing VMware vSAN 8. Chapter 6: VxRail Upgrade 9. Chapter 7: VxRail Scale-Out Operations 10. Section 3: Advanced Solutions for VxRail
11. Chapter 8: Active-Passive Solution for VxRail 12. Chapter 9: Active-Active Solution for VxRail 13. Chapter 10: Migrating Virtual Machines into VxRail 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

VxRail roles and permission management

In this section, we will discuss the roles and permission management of the VxRail cluster. VMware vCenter permission management is controlled by the user account, user group, and permission roles in VMware vCenter Server. VxRail permission management (the VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter) is only accessed by a vCenter user with the roles of Administrator or VMware HCIA Management. When we go to the Administrator menu of vCenter Server and choose Roles, there are many roles predefined for user management, including Administrator, Network administrator (sample), Virtual machine power user (sample), and VMware HCIA Management:

Figure 4.26 – The roles and permission management on vCenter Server

When defining the user account for managing the VxRail cluster, we need to follow up on the role-based access control architecture in Figure 4.27. Administrator Role must be assigned to Root Folder. HCIA Role must be assigned...

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