Allowing non-root users to mount the ISO images in VSphere

Hello!

I'm running ESXi 5 on a root server and want my users to be able to mount a local data store ISO images in their respective VMs.

I created a role to allow them to start/stop/restart etc their VM, that works well. But I am confused as what permissions, I need to define where to allow them to browse and set an ISO for their virtual CD drives. The authorization 'Browse the data store', set for the virtual machine and the server, doesn't really help.

All ideas are welcome!

Sorry for the late reply,

I can choose an ISO local data store and create a new virtual machine with the following privileges on a stand-alone ESXi 5:

Data store > allocate space

Data store > Browse Datastore

Home > operations > reconfigure virtual computer

Resources > assign virtual machine to the list of resources

Virtual machine > all (but this could / should be more restrictive)

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