Create a Provider Role

You can create a role in your VMware Cloud Director Provider organization.

After the initial VMware Cloud Director installation and setup, the system contains predefined roles that are local to the Provider organization and global to all organizations. For information about the predefined roles, see Predefined Roles and Their Rights.

You can add custom provider roles to your Provider organization.

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Administration.
2. In the left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Roles.
3. Click New.
4. Enter a name and, optionally, a description for the new role.
5. Select the rights that you want to associate with the role.
   The rights are grouped in categories and subcategories for view or manage access to the object to which they relate.

   You can select the rights individually, by view or manage by subcategory, or by view or manage globally.

   Category	Description
   Access Control	Contains rights for viewing and managing organizations, rights, roles, and users.
   Administration	Contains rights for viewing and managing general and multisite setting.
   Compute	Contains rights for viewing and managing organization and provider VDCs, vApps, organization VDC templates, and VM monitoring.
   Extensions	Contains rights for viewing and managing VMware Cloud Director plug-ins and extensions.
   Infrastructure	Contains rights for viewing and managing vSphere resources.
   Libraries	Contains rights for viewing and managing catalogs and catalog items.
   Networking	Contains rights for viewing and managing network resources.

6. Click Save.

Results

The newly created role is available for assigning to users in your Provider organization.