Background:
Jarian Gibson has a great post here on all the VMware ESX permissions needed for XenDesktop Desktop Delivery Controller (DDC) to communciate with the VMware ESXi VirtualCenter. I ran into one issue below, using the Citrix Provisioning Services XenDesktop Wizard and had to add "Virtual Machine > Configuration > Change CPU count which is the attribute "VirtualMachine.Config.CPUCount".Environment:
Citrix XenDesktop 5 SP1
Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1
VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1
Problem:
Error There was an error reported by the wizard
[VDI-NonProd-XXXX] Failed to connect with the requested server. (Permission to perform this operation was denied. (NoPermissionFault)(group-v51VirtualMachine.Config.CPUCount) )
Solution:
I was getting the error above but after adding the Change CPU count option it was fixed. Detailed permissions are outlined below.
| ESXi 4.x Perms | |
| At the Datastore node - Allocate space - Browse Data Store - Low level file operations |
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| On the Global Node - Manage custom attributes - Set custom attributes |
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| On the Network node - Assign network |
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| On the Resource node - Assign virtual machine to resource pool |
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| On the Task node - Create Task |  |
| On the Virtual Machine > Configuration node - Add existing disk - Add new disk - Change resource - Remove disk |  |
| On the Virtual Machine > Interaction node - Power On - Power Off - Power Suspend - Power Reset |  |
| On the Virtual machine > Inventory node - Create from existing - Create new - Register - Remove |
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| On the Virtual machine > Provisioning node - Allow disk access - Allow virtual machine download - Allow virtual machine files upload - Clone template - Clone virtual machine - Deploy template |
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| On the Virtual machine > State node - Revert to snapshot |
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