You Don't Have The Privilege to Create New Virtual Machine [FIXED]

The error You do not have the necessary privilege to create new virtual machines appears in the cases in which the user doesn’t have enough privileges set up in order to make different changes in the VMware software.

This issue can become very frustrating over time, as you won’t get the power to create new virtual machines, or edit the existing VMs. Depending on the way your permissions are set up, it might be the case that only administrator users can make important changes.

In this article, we will explore the best way to deal with this situation. We will first see how to assign permissions to different users, read on to find out more.

What to do if I don’t have the privilege to create a new virtual machine?

Assign permission with VMware vCenter Server

1. Login to VMware vCenter Server and select which resource from the list you want to assign extended permissions to.
2. Click on the Permissions tab.
3. In the Permissions window, click on Add.
4. Select the correct Domain name and then click on the domain user you want to give extra permissions to.
5. Click on Add, then Ok
6. Once the Domain User is added, select which of the roles you want to assign (read below), and check the ‘Propagate to child objects’ option (in case you want for the permissions to apply to child objects as well.

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Note: In order for this method to work, you will need to assign administrator rights, and add these CustomRole permissions to your domain user.

Make sure that you select these privileges for the new administrator role. These will give you the power to modify all aspects of privileges and data control for your Server:

Datastore 

• Allocate space
• Browse datastore

Host

• Local operations
• Create a virtual machine
• Delete virtual machine
• Manage user groups
• Reconfigure virtual machine

Network

• Assign Network

Resource

• Assign virtual machine to resource pool

Virtual Machine

• Select the only virtual machine that is allowed to allocate privileges to others

In this article we explored a quick fix for the error You do not have the necessary privilege to create new virtual machines error in VMware.

Following these steps closely will guide you through the process of assigning different access rules for all the users of the VM. Creating and managing an administrator account will allow you access to all settings and thus open up the entire range of capabilities VMware has to offer.

We hope these steps solved your issue. Please feel free to let us know if this method helped you by using the comment section found below this article.

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