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Example of how the View privilege affects tasks in VSC for VMware vSphere

The View privilege allows you to see the Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere GUI. Where you assign a permission containing the View privilege determines which parts of the GUI are visible.

Note: Depending on your company's security requirements, you might either log in as administrator and not use RBAC, or you might set permissions on the root object (folder). Setting permissions on the root object normally allows all the child objects to inherit those permissions, unless you place a restriction on a child object.

If you plan to implement RBAC in a more restrictive way, the following example illustrates how assigning a permission containing the View privilege can affect which parts of the GUI you can access. In this example, the following vCenter Server permission is assigned to Datacenter A:

If you log in to VSC as user "Pat", the NetApp icon appears. However, if you click the icon, VSC displays an error message. This is because "Pat" only has View permission on Datacenter A. To see the VSC menus and toolbars, you must navigate to Datacenter A and right-click it.

To access the main VSC GUI and avoid an error message when you click on the icon, you must assign any permission containing the View privilege to the root object.