Re: Managing VMs: Which to use, "Hosts and Clusters" or "VMs and Templates"

All,

I've resolved my issues.

Checking out Scott Lowes' book "Mastering VMware vSphere 4" Chapter 9, he describes using Resource Pools to group VMs under the Hosts & Clusters view. By using the same names as the folders under VMs & Templates and adding the same permissions, I was able to force each user to use their own folder under VMs & Templates and only their Resource Pool under Hosts & Clusters. So now both views reflect each user's objects and their access controls are correct.

Items to take away from this lessen:

Use Resource Pools under Hosts & Clusters to manage Host defaults for users.

Use Folders under VMs & Templates to manage VMs ad Templates for each user (simpler view).

Thanks for the help,

Johnathan