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vCenter - Show who turned on/off a VM under the "Initiated by" column

Hi there,

We currently have a VMware cluster environment managed by vCenter 5.1. Every time someone starts up a VM and then we check the Tasks & Events tab, we see that the VM has started but under the "Initiated by" column we only see "System". We'd like this column to actually show the user that started/shut down a VM.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
- Christian

bluedan

You can set up different user accounts and assign roles in Permission tab in vCenter. After that, ask the user to log on vCenter using their assigned account then the "Initiated by" will reflect their username which they used to log on.

If you use Active Directory, you can also use the AD Authentication. User can log on using their windows account.

Joining vSphere Hosts to Active Directory
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/joining-vsphere-hosts-to-active-directory.html

Hope this help.

Christian Palacios

ASKER

Hi Bluedan,

Thanks. Unfortunately that is what we are already doing. I'm an administrator of it and we're already doing that. No matter what user starts a VM, it always shows "System". I have attached a picture of it so you can see what just happened when I turned a VM on.

Thanks,
- Christian
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Christian Palacios

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Thank you, this works for us!

vCenter - Show who turned on/off a VM under the &quot;Initiated by&quot; column

vCenter - Show who turned on/off a VM under the "Initiated by" column