{"id":58463,"date":"2023-07-25T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=58463"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:24:05","slug":"vmware-horizon-profile-driven-storage-permissions-in-vsphere-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-horizon-profile-driven-storage-permissions-in-vsphere-8\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Horizon: \"Profile-driven Storage\" permissions in vSphere 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58479 size-full\" title=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-01.jpg\" alt=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-horizon-configure-smart-card-authentication\/\">VMware Horizon<\/a> deployment in a vSAN-based vSphere environment, the <strong>Profile-driven Storage<\/strong> permissions are required for <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-horizon-7-12-instant-clone-setup-pt-4\/\">Instant Clones<\/a> feature.<\/p>\n<p>In the VMware website, based on the version you want to deploy you can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Horizon\/2306\/horizon-installation\/GUID-467F552F-3034-4917-A985-B5E5FEC5C68F.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">privileges required<\/a> for the <strong>vCenter Server user<\/strong> with Instant Clones.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58482 size-large\" title=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-02-600x636.jpg\" alt=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"636\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Profile-driven Storage<\/h2>\n<p>If <strong>vSAN is the storage<\/strong> available in your vSphere infrastructure and you need to configure the Horizon Instant Clones, you need to <strong>assign the Profile-driven Storage permissions<\/strong> to the service account configured in the Connection Server to communicate with the vCenter Server. The required permissions are listed on the VMware page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58484 size-large\" title=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-03-600x51.jpg\" alt=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"51\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These permissions will be assigned to the <strong>Role<\/strong> used by the <strong>User Name<\/strong> specified during the vCenter configuration in the Connection Server.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58486 size-large\" title=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-04-600x295.jpg\" alt=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-04\" width=\"600\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If VMware Horizon is installed on the vSphere infrastructure <strong>version 7.x or lower<\/strong>, the Profile-driven Storage item can be easily found in the <strong>list of the available permissions<\/strong> to configure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58488 size-large\" title=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-05-600x478.jpg\" alt=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-05\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the vSphere <strong>version to use is the 8.x<\/strong>, the Profile-driven Storage item is no longer available. In vSphere 8.x, you need to search for <strong>VM storage policies<\/strong> and select the following options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update VM storage policies<\/li>\n<li>View VM storage policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58490 size-large\" title=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-06-600x466.jpg\" alt=\"horizon-profile-driven-storage-vsphere-8-06\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once these permissions have been assigned, Horizon Instant Clones can be <strong>stored on a vSAN-based storage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the VMware Horizon deployment in a vSAN-based vSphere environment, the Profile-driven Storage permissions are required for Instant Clones feature. In the VMware website, based on the version you want to deploy you can find the privileges required for the vCenter Server user with Instant Clones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,2905],"tags":[1711,2703,2707,583],"class_list":["post-58463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horizon-en","category-omnissa-en","tag-horizon","tag-permission","tag-profile-driven-storage-en","tag-vcenter-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}