You, as a VMware Cloud Director organization administrator, can use the Tenant Portal to create custom tenant role objects in the organizations you administer.

You can add a custom tenant role with a specific set of rights.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are logged in as an organization administrator or a role with equivalent set of rights.

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Administration.
  2. In the left panel under Access Control, click Roles.
    The list of roles appears.
  3. Click New.
  4. Enter a name and a description of the role.
  5. 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.
  6. Click Save.