Modification of ESXi role privileges does not persist after reboot

Products

• VMware vSphere ESX 7.x
• VMware vSphere ESX 8.x

Issue/Introduction

When ESXi role privileges are updated, they do not persist after ESXi reboot. ESXi fails to save updates to persistent storage.

The issue is limited to modification of existing roles. Privileges granted during role creation remain after reboot.

Environment

• VMware ESXi 7.x
• VMware ESXi 8.x

Cause

A known bug occurs where ESXi does not save the most recent group permissions change that occurred before the reboot.

Resolution

This issue has been resolved in 8.0U3.

Additional Information

Updated privileges can be saved by creating a dummy role and then applying it to the user group, only to remove it.

1. Edit the privileges of the role you want to modify.
2. Create a dummy role.
3. Delete a dummy role.