To control what access users have to both vCenter and ONTAP, ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere (OTV) utilizes Role Base Access Control (RBAC). OTV uses the service account to issue API calls to vCenter. ...To control what access users have to both vCenter and ONTAP, ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere (OTV) utilizes Role Base Access Control (RBAC). OTV uses the service account to issue API calls to vCenter. For example, after OTV is installed, a user can be assigned to the VSC Provision role and that will allow them the ability to provision new datastores: For details on how to create a local ONTAP user and role to be used by OTV, please see How to configure role-based access control for ONTAP Tools
