Assign a user role in a vCenter for VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
vCenter
for VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
Create a user role in the
vSphere
client with privileges that are required for VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
. The same role can be assigned to the user who can add a
vCenter
in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
. Verify that you have administrative privileges to add a
role to a user or a user group. You must have administrative privileges to use
vCenter
.If you are using
vCenter
deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC, then you must use the
available CloudAdmin role. For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS
on vCenter
, refer to the VMware Cloud on
AWS product documentation. When you deploy a
VMware Cloud on AWS
on vCenter
, you can use the default CloudAdmin
role. To learn more about cloud administrator privileges, refer to CloudAdmin Privileges documentation.- Log in tovCenterby using thevSphereclient.
- On the home page ofvSphereclient, clickRolesunderAdministration.
- Create a role for all system interactions betweenVMware Aria Suite LifecycleandvCenter.
- CloneRead-onlyand provide a name to the role.
- In theCreate Roledialog box, configure the role using the following configuration settings, and clickNext.SettingValueRole NameVMware Aria Suite LifecyclePrivilege
- Datastore
- You can select All privileges.
- Host.Local
- Operations- Add Host tovCenter
- Operations - Create Virtual Machine
- Operations - Delete Virtual Machine
- Operations - Reconfigure Virtual Machine
- Inventory - Modify - Cluster
- Network
- Assign Network
- Resource
- Assign vApp to Resource Pool
- Assign Virtual Machine to Resource Pool
- vApp
- You can select All privileges.
- Virtual Machines
- You can select All privileges.
- Content Library
- You can select All privileges.
This role inherits the System Anonymous, System View, and System Read privileges.You should have permissions to create a content library. The content library uses a datastore to store all templates, so you require permission to access, read, and write on the same datastore. All privileges under datastore and content library are needed. - Provide a name to the new role and clickFinish.
- SelectGlobal PermissionsunderAdministrationand clickManage.
- To add permissions, click the plus sign.
- Select the user and role that you have created, and clickOK.