Personas describe types of system users, aligned with real people, and their functions within the organization. You build a persona set based on your organization's requirements for role-based access control.

The following is an example of personas defined by the Cloud-Based Workload Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution and their equivalent access. You use this as a baseline for defining and building a set of personas to delegate roles and define access based on roles and responsibilities within your organization's structure.

Table 1. Example Personas for Cloud-Based Workload Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation

Persona

Infrastructure Responsibility

Roles

Cloud Admin

Admin access to solution environment

Organization Owner

  • Global Console Admin

  • Orchestrator Admin

  • VMware Cloud on AWS Administrator

  • VMware Cloud on AWS NSX Cloud Admin

  • VMware HCX Administrator

VI Admin

Admin access to Cloud and vSphere infrastructure level environments

Organization member

  • Recovery SDDC Admin

  • Recovery Admin

  • Protection Admin

  • VMware HCX Administrator

Site Resilliency Engineer (SRE)

Operator access to Cloud and vSphere infrastructure level environments

Organization member

Recovery Admin

Compliance Officer

ReadOnly access for auditing

Organization member

Data Protection Auditor