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## Prerequisites
### vSphere API permissions
Before proceeding to create a cluster, you must ensure that you have a vSphere user with sufficient permissions. If you are planning to make use of vSphere volumes for persistent storage in the cluster, there are [additional requirements]({{< baseurl >}}/rke/latest/en/config-options/cloud-providers/vsphere/) that must be met.
### Network permissions
You must ensure that the hosts running Rancher servers are able to establish network connections to the following network endpoints:
- vCenter server (usually port 443/TCP)
- Every ESXi host that is part of the datacenter to be used to provision virtual machines for your clusters (port 443/TCP).
## Provisioning a vSphere Cluster
The following steps create a role with the required privileges and then assign it to a new user in the vSphere console: