Prepare the deployment user setup and permissions¶
Contact your vSphere administrator to set up the required users and permissions following the steps below:
Log in to the vCenter Server Web Console.
Create the
cluster-api
andstorage
users with the following sets of privileges:¶ General privileges
Virtual machine privileges
Content library
Change configuration
Datastore
Interaction
Distributed switch
Inventory
Folder
Provisioning
Global
Snapshot management
Host local operations
vSphere replication
Network
Resource
Scheduled task
Sessions
Storage views
Tasks
¶ General privileges
Virtual machine privileges
Cloud Native Storage
Change configuration
Content library
Inventory
Datastore
Folder
Host configuration
Host local operations
Host profile
Profile-driven storage
Resource
Scheduled task
Storage views
For RHEL deployments, if you do not have a RHEL machine with the
virt-who
service configured to report the vSphere environment configuration and hypervisors information to RedHat Customer Portal or RedHat Satellite server, set up thevirt-who
service inside the Container Cloud machines for a proper RHEL license activation.Create a
virt-who
user with at least read-only access to all objects in the vCenter Data Center.The
virt-who
service on RHEL machines will be provided with thevirt-who
user credentials to properly manage RHEL subscriptions.For details on how to create the
virt-who
user, refer to the official RedHat Customer Portal documentation.