Minimum Permissions for deploying and registering the Bitfusion Manager

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This document will provide the minimum permissions needed for both deployment of the OVF, and registration of the appliance to vCenter

Symptoms:
When trying to deploy the Bitfusion manager, you may have limitations in your organization that do not allow you to use an administrator account when deploying and registering the Bitfusion manager appliance. If the below permissions are not available you will not be able to deploy the OVF, or the manager will not be able to register to vCenter as it will fail the license check for Bitfusion.

Environment

VMware vSphere Bitfusion 4.x

Resolution

Starting in 4.5.3, a service account is created during installation, so the SSO administrator account has to be provided so that it can create this account correctly.

Below are the minimum permissions needed for each task with 4.5.2 and below:

Deployment of the OVF:

Datastore: 
- Allocate space
Network:
- Assign network
vApp:
- Import
Virtual Machine:
  Change Configuration
    - Add new disk
   - Add or remove device
   - Advanced configuration
   - Change Memory
   - Change Settings
   - Modify device settings
 Edit Inventory:
   - Create new
 Interaction:
   - Guest operation system management by VIX API
   - Power on
   - Power off

Registration of the appliance to vCenter:
Extension
 - Register extension
 - Unregister extension
 - Update extension

Global:
 - Licenses

Sessions:
 - Impersonate user
 - Message
 - Validate session
- View and stop sessions