Reviewing minimum requirements for VMware environments

This topic describes the minimum requirements and access and privilege requirements for setting up TrueSight Orchestration in VMware environments.

System requirements (VMware)

To employ TrueSight Orchestration in a VMware vSphere virtual environment, your environment must have the following minimum configuration:

  • ESX Host (versions 3.0, 3.5, 3i, 4.0, 4i,and 5i)
  • vCenter Server (vSphere versions 2.5, 4, 4.1, and 5)
  • VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
  • VMware tools must be installed on all VMware templates. These tools are used to apply configuration settings to new guest VMs as a part of the provisioning process. 
  • If you are provisioning Windows Server 2003 machines and want to let the Virtual Center perform sysprep activities, copy sysprep to the Virtual Center server. This is not required for Windows 2008, as the Windows 2008 operating system already includes sysprep.

Access and privileges (VMware)

The following sections note the access and privilege requirements for implementing TrueSight Orchestration in a VMware environment:

Application Server access

The Application Server requires access to the web service on the target (the vCenter server).

Required agent privileges

The agent requires administrative privileges. The Exports file must contain an entry such as '* rw, user=administrator'.

Required vCenter user privileges

TrueSight Orchestration requires (at a minimum)that the vCenter user has the specific privileges listed in the following table:

Type of privilege

VWware Resource Privilege Name

Datastore

  • Allocate space
  • Browse datastore

Distributed Virtual Switch

  • Create

Host Local Operations

  • Create virtual machine
  • Reconfigure virtual machine

Network

  • Assign network
  • Configure

Resource

  • Assign virtual machine to resource pool
  • Assign virtual machine to Cluster
  • Assign virtual machine to Host

Virtual Machine Configuration

Select all of the privileges for this category.

Virtual Machine Configuration

  • All

Virtual Machine Interaction

  • Device connection
  • Power Off
  • Power On
  • Reset
  • Suspend

Virtual Machine Inventory

  • Create from existing
  • Create new
  • Move
  • Remove

Virtual Machine Provisioning

  • Customize
  • Deploy template
  • Read customization specification
  • Clone Virtual Machine
  • Clone template

Virtual Machine State

  • Create snapshot

For more information about permissions in vSphere, see the VMware vSphere documentation.

Related topics

Configuring the VIS actor adapter 
Module for the VIS adapter 
VIS actor adapter requests and responses 

 

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