Users are unable to power on virtual machine with the Virtual Machine Power User role in vCenter Server 6.0

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
After installing or upgrading to vSphere 6.0, you experience these symptoms when using the Virtual Machine Power User role in a vSphere cluster in which Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is enabled:

• Powering on a virtual machine via the vSphere Client fails with the status:
  
  Permission to perform this operation was denied.
  You do not hold privilege "System > Read" on the host ""
  
  
• Powering on a virtual machine via the vSphere Web Client fails with the status:
  
  Permission to perform this operation was denied.
  
  
• You are unable to power on virtual machines within the environment.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x

Resolution

This issue is resolved in vCenter Server 6.0 Update 1, available at VMware Downloads. For more information, see the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Update 1 Release Notes.

If you are unable to upgrade, you can work around this issue by applying Read-Only role at the Host or Cluster level of the affected cluster. For more information, see the Using Roles to Assign Privileges section of the vSphere Security guide.

Additional Information

用户无法在 vCenter Server 6.0 中使用“虚拟机超级用户”角色打开虚拟机电源
Os usuários não conseguem ligar a máquina virtual com a função Virtual Machine Power User no vCenter Server 6.0
Los usuarios no pueden encender las máquinas virtuales con la función de usuario avanzado de máquina virtual en vCenter Server 6.0