To be able to complete some operations in VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions, you must have all the necessary privileges.

Tenant administrators can view all the data within their organization. They might have the rights to provision Kubernetes clusters and to create data solution instances.

Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions operators install the data solutions extension operator to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud. In addition to required rights for this user role, the tenant operators must also have edit right on specific Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud clusters. Specifically, the user's role must include the following rights:
  • Edit VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • ReadWrite right in the access control list of the cluster Runtime Defined Entity (RDE) instance.

Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions users perform day-to-day operations on the data solution instance management, for example, creation, update, and deletion.

Table 1. User roles and rights
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions role Description VMware Cloud Director roles and rights
Tenant administrator You need this role to:
  • View published data solutions.
  • View data solution instances.
  • View the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud activation status.
  • View VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions usage metrics.
  • Attach and detach MongoDB Ops Manager to tenant organization.
 Organization administrator
  • Administrator View
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSMETERING
Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions operator You need this role to:

Activate Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud for VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions.

 Custom VMware Cloud Director role
  • Administrator View
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • Manage user's own API token
  • Edit: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSMETERING
  • View: Metering
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Full Control: Metering
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSMETERING
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions user You need this role to:
  • View published data solutions.
  • Manage data solution instances.
 Custom VMware Cloud Director role
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • View: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • View: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUP