Organization administrators can use the tenant portal to create custom tenant role objects in the organizations they administer.
Prerequisites
This operation requires the rights included in the predefined Organization Administrator role or an equivalent set of rights.
Procedure
- In the top navigation bar, click Administration.
- In the left panel under Access Control, click Roles.
The list of roles appears.
- Click Add.
- Enter a name and, optionally, a description of the role.
- Expand the rights for the role and select the rights for the role.
The rights are grouped in categories and subcategories that allow either viewing or managing objects.
Option |
Description |
Access Control |
Rights controlling the access to view and manage certain objects. |
Administration |
Rights controlling the administrative access. |
Compute |
Rights controlling access and management of the organization and provider virtual data centers, the vApps, organization virtual data centers templates, virtual machine groups, and virtual machine monitoring. |
Extensions |
Rights controlling the access to any additional plug-ins and VMware Cloud Director extensions. |
Infrastructure |
Rights controlling the access and management of the infrastructure objects, such as datastores, disks, hosts, and so on. |
Libraries |
Rights controlling access and management of any catalogs and catalog items. |
Networking |
Rights controlling access and management of the network settings. |
- Click Save.