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• A list of resources (enterprises and/or datacenters) for access control

• The list of resources (datacenters and enterprises) that

• the user can view and manage.

• The user must also have the other required permissions (privileges and allowed datacenters)

A user can deploy in allowed datacenters, even if

they are not in

their scope. An Administrator can manage users of the enterprises that are in their scope

• The list of enterprises whose users can access the resource,

• if they have the other required permissions

• Administrators select a set of scopes to share

• a resource with

• users of the enterprises

• listed in the scopes

Used to share VM templates and VApp specs. An administrator can select their own scope, and

scopes underneath their

scope in the scope hierarchy

• A

• parent scope and one or more child scopes
• Used for sharing resources to tenants that are

• underneath the administrator's

• scope

Administrators can

share VM templates and VApp specs with

users in scopes

beneath their own scope.

But they cannot manage the enterprises that are not directly in their user scope

• The default scope for the cloud administrator that

• always includes all

• resources and

• cannot be modified

• The global scope

• Use all enterprises checkbox selected

• - ALL current and future enterprises

• Use all datacenters checkbox selected

• - ALL current and future datacenters

An unlimited scope

cannot have a parent scope. It must be at the top of

a scope hierarchy

. An unlimited scope has new resources added automatically

in its unlimited dimensions. Only a user with an unlimited scope can create an unlimited scope in the same dimensions as their scope.