Permissions required for Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 and VMware vSphere 5.1

As some administrators may have noticed, VMware has made quite a few changes to vSphere 5.1 and I was thrown off by the change to the layout of permissions while I configured the role for the XenDesktop service account because the only documentation available from Citrix that I could find was written for XenDesktop 5 and VMware vSphere 5.  After browsing around the permissions available in vCenter 5.1 the change I noticed was that there is no longer the section Virtual Machine –> State which would explain why when I made the attempt to assign the Create Snapshot, Remove Snapshot, Revert to Snapshot, I couldn’t find it:

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xendesktop-rho/cds-vmware-rho.html

These permissions in vCenter 5.1 have since been moved to Virtual Machine –> Snapshot management:

Here is a screenshot of the old vCenter 5.0 Virtual Machine –> State option:

I think it’s important to note that I ran into the same issue when configuring the permissions for a VMware View 5.1 environment a week ago as VMware hasn’t updated their documentation either.  Seeing how I’ve been doing XenDesktop deployments quite frequently, I thought it would be a good idea to blog the permission settings so I have something to reference to in the future.  Note that the permissions haven’t changed so that much of the following Citrix eDoc still applies:

Using VMware with XenDesktop
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xendesktop-rho/cds-vmware-rho.html

Datastore

• Allocate space
• Browse datastore
• Low level file operations

Global

• Manage custom attributes
• Set custom attribute

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Network

• Assign network

Resource

• Assign virtual machine to resource pool

Tasks

• Create task

Virtual machine –> Configuration

• Add existing disk
• Add new disk
• Change CPU count
• Change resource
• Memory
• Remove disk

Virtual machine –> Interaction

• Power Off
• Power On
• Reset
• Suspend

Virtual machine –> Inventory

• Create from existing
• Create new
• Register
• Remove

Virtual machine –> Provisioning

• Allow disk access
• Allow virtual machine download
• Allow virtual machine files upload
• Clone template
• Clone virtual machine
• Deploy template

Virtual machine –> Snapshot management

• Create snapshot
• Revert to snapshot

Hope this helps anyone out there looking for updated permission settings for configuring the role for the XenDesktop 5.6 service account.