Objects might have multiple permissions, but only one permission for each user or group.
Permissions applied on a child object always override permissions that are applied on a parent object. Virtual machine folders and resource pools are equivalent levels in the hierarchy. If you assign propagating permissions to a user or group on a virtual machine's folder and its resource pool, the user has the privileges propagated from the resource pool and from the folder.
If multiple group permissions are defined on the same object and the user belongs to two or more of those groups, two situations are possible: