We have 14 ESX 4.0.1 blade servers and vCenter 4.1 running about 250 development and production VMs. Periodically there is a need to make an escrow of a vCenter VM in Workstation format to send to the escrow company. As the vCenter and ESX admin I have been doing that with Converter. Due to corporate structure changes there is a need for someone else to make these copies. The designated person has installed a copy of Converter but when he starts it and tries to create the copy the connection to the server fails.
The user has Administrator rights in vCenter on the blades in the engineering cluster. Does he also need to have a login to each ESX host? And if so, what are the minimum rights he will need?
As the people who will be doing this have no experience with Linux or UNIX, do not want them to be able to mess with ESX.
Thanks