This section discusses the roles required to be assigned to the vCenter user for integration with NSX Advanced Load Balancer.

You need to create the following roles:

  • AviRole-Global

  • AviRole-Folder

AviRole-Global

This role must apply Global Permissions. It allows the user to upload SE OVF to the content library, allocate space on datastore to create a virtual machine (VM) and assign networks to it.

Role Summary

The AviRole-Global needs the following permissions:

  • Content Library

    • Add library items

    • Delete library items

    • Update files

    • Update library items

  • Datastore

    • Allocate space

    • Remove files

  • Network

    • Assign network

    • Remove

  • vAPP

    • Import

  • Virtual Machine

    • Change Configuration

      • Add new disk

Creating AviRole-Global

To create AviRole-Global,

  1. Log in to the vCenter UI as admin.

  2. Navigate to Administration > Roles as shown below:

  3. Click the + sign to create a new role.

    Figure 1.

  4. Click Content Library and select the permissions as shown below:

  5. Click Datastore and select Allocate space and Remove file.

  6. Click Network and select Assign network and Remove.

  7. Click Virtual Machine and select Add new disk.

  8. Click vApp and select Import.

  9. Click Next.

  10. Specify the Role name as AviRole-Global and specify a Description, if required.



  11. Click Finish.

AviRole-Folder

This role must be applied to the folder where the admin wants the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Service Engine VMs to be created. It contains the permissions to create an SE folder, create SE VM from template, assign it to a resource pool, and perform operations on the VM like adding devices, powering it on/ off, and connecting its vNICs to networks. This role restricts the VM operations only to the folder to which the role is applied.

Role Summary

The AviRole-Global needs the following permissions:

  • Folder

    • Create folders

  • Network

    • Assign networks

    • Remove networks

  • Resource

    • Assign virtual machine to resource pool

  • Tasks

    • Create tasks

    • Update tasks

  • vApp

    • Add virtual machine

    • Assign resource pool

    • Assign vApp

    • Create

    • Delete

    • Export

    • Import

    • Power off

    • Power on

    • vApp application configuration

    • vApp instance configuration

  • Virtual machine

    • Change Configuration

      • Add existing disk

      • Add new disk

      • Add or remove device

      • Advanced configuration

      • Change CPU count

      • Change Memory

      • Change Settings

      • Change resource

      • Display connection settings

      • Extend virtual disk

      • Modify device settings

      • Remove disk

    • Edit Inventory

      • Create new

      • Remove

      • Register

      • Unregister

    • Interaction

      • Connect devices

      • Install VMware Tools

      • Power off

      • Power on

      • Reset

    • Provisioning

      • Allow disk access

      • Allow file access

      • Allow read-only disk access

      • Deploy template

      • Mark as virtual machine

Creating AviRole-Folder

To create AviRole-Folder,

  1. Log in to the vCenter UI as admin.

  2. Navigate to Administration > Roles as shown in the previous section.

  3. Click the + sign to create a new role.

  4. Click Folder and select Create folder.

  5. Click Network, and select Assign network and Remove.



  6. Click Resource and select Assign virtual machine to resource pool.

  7. Click Tasks and select the permissions as shown below:

  8. Click Virtual Machine and select the permissions as shown below:





  9. Click vApp and select the permissions as shown below:

  10. Click Next.

  11. Specify the Role name as AviRole-Folder and specify a Description, if required.

  12. Click Finish.

Note:

While creating the folder at vCenter, you should select New VM and Template Folder option.

Combined AviRole

If the vCenter admin does not want to restrict VM operations to a folder and wants to assign the permissions globally, a single AviRole can be created with permissions as shown below and applied as Global Permissions instead of creating AviRole - Global and AviRole - Folder.

Role Summary

  • Content Library

    • Add library item

    • Delete library item

    • Update files

    • Update library item

  • Datastore

    • Allocate space

    • Remove file

  • Folder

    • Create folder

  • Network

    • Assign network

    • Remove

  • Resource

    • Assign virtual machine to resource pool

  • Tasks

    • Create task

    • Update task

  • vApp

    • Add virtual machine

    • Assign resource pool

    • Assign vApp

    • Create

    • Delete

    • Export

    • Import

    • Power off

    • Power on

    • vApp application configuration

    • vApp instance configuration

  • Virtual machine

    • Change Configuration

      • Add existing disk

      • Add new disk

      • Add or remove device

      • Advanced configuration

      • Change CPU count

      • Change Memory

      • Change Settings

      • Change resource

      • Display connection settings

      • Extend virtual disk

      • Modify device settings

      • Remove disk

    • Edit Inventory

      • Create new

      • Remove inventory

      • Register

      • Unregister

    • Interaction

      • Connect devices

      • Install VMware Tools

      • Power off

      • Power on

      • Reset

    • Provisioning

      • Allow disk access

      • Allow file access

      • Allow read-only disk access

      • Deploy template

      • Mark as virtual machine

Assigning the Roles

Assign the global and folder level roles, as discussed below:

Assigning AviRole-Global

  1. Log in to vCenter UI and navigate to Global Permissions.

  2. Click the + sign to add a new permission:

  3. Select the Domain.

  4. Search and select the required username (this will be used for authentication in the Avi cloud configuration).

  5. Click Propogate to children. The Add Permission screen is as shown below:



  6. Click OK.

Assigning AviRole-Folder

  1. Log in to vCenter UI and navigate to VMs and Templates.

  2. Select the VM folder in which the Avi SEs have to be created.

    Figure 2.

  3. Navigate to Permissions tab.

  4. Click the + sign to add a new permission.

    Figure 3.

  5. Select theDomain.

  6. Search and select the required username (this will be used for authentication in the Avi cloud configuration).

  7. Click Propogate to children. The Add Permission screen is as shown below:

    Figure 4.

  8. Click on OK.