Hello everyone,
As the subject suggests, when you are managing individual VMs, which is best to use? Hosts and Clusters? VMs and Templates?
This is our setup:
Previously we had been solely using "Hosts and Clusters" to manage all of our VMs. We would organize individual's objects within vApps and Resource Pools. We had also setup permissions on these parent objects as well to denote who had access to what.
We basically have about 12 users. Each has their own VMs that they use for training, etc. We manage the user's access centrally via AD with users and groups. We also have certain users assigned to certain hosts to keep things level between the two hosts. Our license doesn't allow for DRS, BTW.
I've just replaced our vCenter server in preparation for our vSphere 4.1 upgrade later this year, yes we are on vSphere 4.0 currently. So, I went ahead and used the "VMs and Templates" to create user folders, gave user access, and have placed all the user's VMs within those folders. (I've recently heard that using Hosts and Clusters was semantically incorrect.) Even though they have access to their folder, they can't create a VM since they can't access a host. Can a VMs and Templates folder be assigned to a host?
I didn't want to assign permissions to each user to be able to add to every host, as I didn't want others to mess with other's virtual machines. Previously all user had red-only access, but sinc the VMs and Templates folders are not assigned to any host, they can't get to their folder to create and manage their VMs.
So, am I going about this all wrong with VMs and Templates and should I just continue to use our previously setup Hosts and Clusters permission groups?
Any advice on semantics in this would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Johnathan