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How to define your own user role for your vCloud Director access

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vCloud Director uses roles and their associated rights to determine whether a user or group is authorized to perform an operation. Many of the procedures documented in the vCloud Director guides include a prerequisite role. These prerequisites assume that the named role is the unmodified predefined role or a role that includes an equivalent set of rights.

There are some predefined roles that is available for usage by default, to define your own use roles:

1.Login to vCloud Director, after that navigate to ‘Administration’ tab at upper menu.

2.Navigate to Access Control > Roles > Click ‘NEW’

3.In this windows, Insert the name and description of the roles you are about to create

4.There are many layers of access you can control from many aspects, from top view you can manage this role to whether able to VIEW or MANAGE (Change) the following attributes:

  • Access Control
  • Administration
  • Compute
  • Extentions
  • Infrastructure
  • Libraries
  • Networking