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2V0-621 · Question #42

A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible. What is a possible solution?

The correct answer is A. Assign the user the read-only role at the global permission level. Content Libraries are global objects in vSphere and are only visible to users who have been granted permissions at the global permission level, not at vCenter, datacenter, or cluster level.

Section 1 – Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Security

Question

A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible. What is a possible solution?

Options

  • AAssign the user the read-only role at the global permission level.
  • BAssign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server root level.
  • CAssign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server data center level.
  • DAssign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server cluster level.

How the community answered

(55 responses)
  • A
    82% (45)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    5% (3)
  • D
    11% (6)

Why each option

Content Libraries are global objects in vSphere and are only visible to users who have been granted permissions at the global permission level, not at vCenter, datacenter, or cluster level.

AAssign the user the read-only role at the global permission level.Correct

Content Libraries reside outside the standard vSphere inventory hierarchy and are governed by global permissions. Assigning the read-only role at the global permission level ensures the user can see all Content Libraries across all associated vCenter Server instances, which is the minimum permission scope required for visibility.

BAssign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server root level.

Assigning read-only at the vCenter Server root only covers objects within that vCenter's inventory tree; Content Libraries as global objects remain invisible because they require global-scope permissions.

CAssign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server data center level.

Datacenter-level read-only permissions are scoped to objects beneath that datacenter node and do not propagate to global objects such as Content Libraries.

DAssign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server cluster level.

Cluster-level permissions are even more narrowly scoped than datacenter permissions and have no effect on the visibility of global objects like Content Libraries.

Concept tested: Content Library visibility and global permission scope

Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-9DE2BD8F-E499-4F1E-956B-67212DE593C6.html

Topics

#Content Library#global permissions#read-only role#visibility

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