Any active VMware Cloud Director organization user can access VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

The items that you see and the actions that you can perform depend on the rights assigned to your user account within a VMware Cloud Director organization.

The rights assigned to your user account in VMware Cloud Director define your user role in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

Table 1. Mapping Between VMware Cloud Director Rights and VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension Roles
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension Tenant Portal Role VMware Cloud Director Rights Notes
Provider Administrator
  • General: Administrator View
  • Provider VDC: View
  • Organization VDC: View
  • UI Plugins: View
None.
Tenant Administrator
  • General: Administrator View
  • Organization VDC: View
  • UI Plugins: View
Tenant administrators in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension must not have the Provider VDC: View role assigned to their user account in VMware Cloud Director. If you assign the Provider VDC: View role to a Tenant Administrator, the user role in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension changes to Provider Administrator.
Tenant User UI Plugins: View Tenant users in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension must not have the General: Administrator View and the General: Administrator View roles assigned to their user account in VMware Cloud Director. If you assign these roles to a Tenant User, the user role in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension changes to Tenant Administrator.

Starting with VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension 2.1, you can control the access to features for users in your organization by using subordinate roles. Subordinate roles determine if the tenant user can work with vApp, Catalog, and Kubernetes features in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension. Organization administrators can assign subordinate roles to organization users. An organization administrator inherits all subordinate roles by default. An organization user does not have access to the vApp, Catalog, and Kubernetes features by default.

This subrole... Allows you to...
vApp Contributor Capture and restore vApps.
Catalog Contributor Create, publish, and import catalogs.
Kubernetes Contributor Backup and restore guest Kubernetes clusters.

For information about the predefined roles and their rights in VMware Cloud Director, see Predefined Roles and Their Rights.