"You do not have permissions to perform this action" when attempting to perform the Shutdown Cluster operation on vSAN Services

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• The Shutdown Cluster (vSAN Services) option in the vCenter Server UI is greyed out for non-administrator users.
  
  
• These users are receiving the error: "You do not have permissions to perform this action" when trying to perform the Shutdown Cluster operation.
  

 

 

 

Environment

vCenter Server 8.0.x
vSAN 8.0.x
ESXi 8.0.x

Cause

Role assigned to non-administrator user does not have required privileges to perform Shutdown Cluster (vSAN Services) activity.

Resolution

Assign below privileges to the role mapped to non-administrator user. These are the minimum privileges required for "Shutdown cluster" option to be available.

In the Host section, select below privileges :

• Maintenance
• Modify Cluster
• Power

Note: No vCenter Server service restart or reboot is required to apply the changes made to the role.

Additional Information

Sample screenshot of custom role :