You can create and manage roles in your VMware Cloud Director Provider organization.

For information about managing tenant roles, see the VMware Cloud Director Sub-Provider and Tenant Guide.

Create a Provider Role in Your VMware Cloud Director

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 VMware Cloud Director Roles and Their Rights.

You can add custom provider roles to your Provider organization.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
  2. From the secondary left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Roles.
  3. Click New.
  4. Enter a name and 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.

Clone a Provider Role to Your VMware Cloud Director

You can use an existing provider role as a template for the creation of a new role.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have the rights to add new roles to VMware Cloud Director.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
  2. From the secondary left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Roles.
  3. Select the role that you want to clone and click Clone.
  4. In the Clone Role window, enter a name and description for the cloned role.
  5. (Optional) To edit the cloned rights, turn on the Modify Selected Rights toggle, and select or deselect the rights you want to change for the cloned role.
  6. Click Save.

View or Edit a Provider Role in Your VMware Cloud Director

You can view the rights that are included in a role that is local to your VMware Cloud Director Provider organization. You can modify the name, the description, and the rights of a role.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
  2. From the secondary left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Roles.
  3. Click the name of the target role.
    You can view the rights that are associated with the role by expanding the right categories.
  4. To modify the name, the description, or the rights of the role, click Edit.
  5. Edit the role and click Save.

Results

If you modified the rights of the role, the new set of rights is applied to the users that are assigned with this role.

Delete a Provider Role From Your VMware Cloud Director

You can remove a role that you no longer use in your VMware Cloud Director Provider organization.

Prerequisites

The role that you want to delete must not be assigned to any user.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
  2. From the secondary left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Roles.
  3. Select the radio button next to the target role and click Delete.
  4. To confirm, click OK.