Odd vCSA issue

spiceuser-2f7m9 · 2019-07-11T23:59:21.000Z

I have a strange issue where I cannot alter or work with a VM Hard Drive via vCSA.

I can make any changes needed directly in ESXi (although with warnings that I should be doing it through vCSA).

Any thoughts?

davidg · 2019-07-12T00:44:58.000Z

Are you getting any error messages?

Are you logged in as Administrator? Are you sure you have complete admin privs?

I would guess that you have a role in vCenter that limits you from altering hard drives.

When you log on to the host as root, of course- you will have full permissions.

adrian_ych · 2019-07-12T02:38:06.000Z

Laird Spicehead:

I have a strange issue where I cannot alter or work with a VM Hard Drive via vCSA.

What do you mean by that ?? What are you trying to do and need more details also…like VM type, VM OS, any snapshots, any backups etc.

crimsonkida · 2019-07-12T22:05:18.000Z

Laird Spicehead:

I have a strange issue where I cannot alter or work with a VM Hard Drive via vCSA.

First some terminology has to be cleared up. I think you mean vSphere?? vCSA is vCenter Server Appliance, which manages ESXi hosts. But yes, if you are using vCenter (vCSA) then you cannot use the ESXi client. Just login to the vSphere web-client (Flash) or UI (HTML5) and make the changes. You should never use the ESXi client to make changes on a vCenter managed host unless the host has lost it’s connection to vCenter. This is because you risk it falling out of sync and losing the changes.

1.) What account are you using to login to vSphere? If it’s not Administrator@vSphere.local then this might be a simple permissions issue
2.) You haven’t provided us enough info here to help you. Please read this: Asking Better Questions