Example privilege changes for adding public cloud

These lists contain some example privileges to consider adding when you adapt your roles to include public cloud.

These lists are examples only. Always test your roles in your own environment.

Users and tenant administrators

The privileges to consider for users and tenant administrators are as follows:

• Home
  • View bills
  • Display optimization dashboard tab
  • Display hybrid dashboard tab
  • Display VM cost view widget on Hybrid dashboard tab
• Virtual datacenters
  • Manage floating IPs (currently assigned to enterprise administrators)
  • Manage VPNs (currently assigned to enterprise administrators)
  • Manage classic firewalls (vCloud)
  • Manage virtual machine hard disks (vCloud)
  • Assign public IPs to VMs
  • Access public network tab
  • Manage public network elements
  • Assign external IPs to VMs (vCloud)
  • Access external network tab (vCloud)
  • Assign firewalls to virtual machines
  • Assign load balancers
• Apps library
  • Export a virtual machine template to public cloud region
• Users
  • Manage provider credentials
  • Manage virtual datacenter roles
  • Access budgets section
  • Manage budgets

Platform administrators

If your platform administrators do not have cloud administrator roles, please check that they have all the appropriate privileges for public cloud, which may include the user list plus the following privileges:

• Home
  • Manage bills
• Infrastructure
  • Manage public cloud regions
  • Access infrastructure view and PCRs
  • View public cloud region details
• Virtual datacenters
  • Manage default virtual datacenter firewall
  • Manage VDC default roles
• Users
  • Manage enterprise properties
  • Manage virtual datacenter roles
• Pricing
  • Add a cost code when editing a VM template
  • Access Pricing view
  • Manage pricing
  • Manage pricing credentials
• Control
  • View enterprise hierarchy