Partial ESXi takeover from MSP

Hello,

I have entered the company couple of months ago, and the current state is that MSP is basically managing everything. I am completely handicapped at anything I want to do, each change, disk resize, new VM, configuration, has to go per email via MSP. I want to change this. We are a small team, like 2 people of infra. Environment is 8 ESXI + Azure.

I basically wanted to take over ESXI from MSP, but my boss says he doesn't want us to do any ESXi or vCenter upgrades, that should remain in the hands of the MSP. Agree. I am now trying to come up with a list of "What do I need" for daily business and continuous optimizations, that I can stop writing 10 emails daily to change this or that...

My boss basically wants following MSP managed:

Hardware/Firmware/ESXi/vCenter updates and patches

Storage-Array-Administration

Adding/Removing hosts (not really happening daily, but anyway)

Configuring networking links (also doesn't change very often)

Capacity planing on the cluster-level.

I am fine with that.

I want though at least:

Everything around VMs (create, change, delete, clone, snapshots...)

Resource Pool Management

vMotion / DRS accessibility and ability to configure, affinity + anti-affinity

Templates / Clones

Read-Access on host/cluster performance in vcenter (per-vm, per-host, per-cluster performance tab in vcenter, tasks&events)

esxtop/resxtop - not really used, but I've read about it. msp would probably hard push back around ssh/console access to the hypervisors. could be helpful while troubleshooting performance.

Also should be able to use RVTools.

How do you see my list, am I missing some very important things?

And do you see this doable without giving us (the company, or me) full administration rights in vcenter? I have never worked with RBAC in ESXi, so have no idea what roles are there, only ever had full access in vCenter. So the question is, do you see it as a requirement, basically, for the tasks I want?

Thanks