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Management permissions and genealogy

To view the full hierarchy of VMs and VM templates in the Genealogy window, the user must have Read permission on the folders where these VMs and the VM templates are located. Without Read permission, only part of the Genealogy Tree is displayed. When you navigate through the tree, user permissions on the VMs and VM template folders are updated. For details about user groups and permissions, see Manage permissions.

Example: Create two users with different folder permissions.

  • user_1 has Read permission on all folders (folder1, folder2, folder3, folder4, folder5) where VMs and VM templates are located.
  • user_2 has Read permission on some folders (folder2, folder4, folder5) and List permission on others (folder1 and folder3).

user_1 can see the full hierarchy, or Genealogy Tree, as shown below:

Full Genealogy Tree View of VM clone_win2012

user_2 can see only part of the hierarchy, as shown below):

Partial Genealogy Tree view of VM clone_win2012

  • user_2 does not have permissions on the folder where the ancestor WINDOWS-KCBSKM8 is located, so this VM is not displayed in the tree.
  • user_2 does not have permissions on the folder where the VM clone_level3 is located.
    • The VM is not visible.
    • The descendants of this VM are not visible even if the user has permissions on the folders where the descendants are located.