Compare specific privileges assigned to roles with matching names in two different vCenters

compare-vcenter-roles.ps1

#Compare specific privileges assigned to roles with matching names in two different vCenters

#Populate two arrays with roles from old vCenter 5.5 and new vCenter 6.0
Connect-VIServer oldvcenter
$p_old = Get-VIRole
Disconnect-VIServer

Connect-VIServer
$p_new = Get-VIRole
Disconnect-VIServer

#Compare the PrivilegeList from old and new vCenters
foreach ($oldrole in $p_old) {
  echo "*** Comparing old role $($oldrole.name) ***"
  $newrole = $p_new | ? name -eq $oldrole.name
  Compare-Object $oldrole.privilegelist $newrole.privilegelist
}