vRA 7.6 User Roles Flashcards
Be able to determine how different roles are assigned and be able to determine a role based on seeing their responsibilities. References: https://virtualization24x7.blogspot.com/2016/05/vmware-vrealize-automation-7x-user-roles.html
How is the tenant administrator assigned?
The system administrator designates a tenant administrator when creating a tenant. Tenant administrators can assign the role to other users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the fabric administrator assigned?
The IaaS administrator designates the fabric administrator when creating or editing fabric groups.
How is the Application architect assigned?
Tenant administrators can assign this role to users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the Infrastructure Architect assigned?
Tenant administrators can assign this role to users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the XaaS Architect assigned?
Tenant administrators can assign this role to users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the Software Architect assigned?
Tenant administrators can assign this role to users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the Catalog Administrator assigned?
Tenant administrators can assign this role to users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the Business Group Manager assigned?
The tenant administrator designates the business group manager when creating or editing business groups.
How is the Approval Administrator assigned?
Tenant administrators can assign this role to users in their tenant at any time from the Administration tab.
How is the Approver assigned?
The tenant administrator or approval administrator creates approval policies and designates the approvers for each policy.
How is the Support User assigned?
The tenant administrator designates the support user when creating or editing business groups.
How is the Business User assigned?
The tenant administrator designates the business users who can consume IT services when creating or editing business groups.
How is the System Administrator assigned?
Built-in administrator credentials are specified when configuring single sign-on.
How is the IaaS administrator assigned?
The system administrator designates the IaaS administrator when configuring a tenant.
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Create tenants.
■ Configure tenant identity stores.
■ Assign IaaS administrator role.
■ Assign tenant administrator role.
■ Configure system default branding.
■ Configure system default notification providers.
■ Monitor system event logs, not including IaaS logs.
■ Configure the vRealize Orchestrator server for use with XaaS.
■ Create and manage (view, edit, and delete) reservations across tenants if also a fabric administrator.
System Administrator
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Configure IaaS features, global properties. ■ Create and manage fabric groups. ■ Create and manage endpoints. ■ Manage endpoint credentials. ■ Configure proxy agents. ■ Manage Amazon AWS instance types. ■ Monitor IaaS-specific logs. ■ Create and manage (view, edit, and delete) reservations across tenants if also a fabric administrator.
IaaS Administrator
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Customize tenant branding. ■ Manage tenant identity stores. ■ Manage user and group roles. ■ Create custom groups. ■ Manage notification providers. ■ Enable notification scenarios for tenant users. ■ Configure vRealize Orchestrator servers, plug-ins and workflows for XaaS. ■ Create and manage catalog services. ■ Manage catalog items. ■ Manage actions. ■ Create and manage entitlements. ■ Create and manage approval policies. ■ Monitor tenant machines and send reclamation requests.
Tenant administrator
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Manage property groups.
■ Manage compute resources.
■ Manage network profiles.
■ Manage Amazon EBS volumes and key pairs.
■ Manage machine prefixes.
■ Manage property dictionary.
■ Create and manage reservations and reservation policies in their own tenant.
■ If this role is added to a user with IaaS administrator or system administrator privileges, the user can create and manage reservations and reservation policies in any tenant.
Fabric Administrator
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Assemble and manage composite blueprints.
Application architect
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Create and manage infrastructure blueprint components.
■ Assemble and manage composite blueprints.
Infrastructure Architect
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Define custom resource types.
■ Create and publish XaaS blueprints.
■ Create and manage resource mappings.
■ Create and publish resource actions.
XaaS architect
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Create and manage software blueprint components.
■ Assemble and manage composite blueprints.
Software Architect
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Create and manage catalog services.
■ Manage catalog items.
■ Assign icons to actions.
Catalog Administrator
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Add and delete users within their business group.
■ Assign support user roles to users in their business group.
■ Create and manage entitlements for their business group.
■ Request and manage items on behalf of a user in their business group.
■ Monitor resource usage in a business group.
■ Change machine owner.
Business group manager
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Create and manage approval policies.
Approval administrator
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Approve service catalog requests, including provisioning requests or any resource actions.
Approver
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Request and manage items on behalf of other users in their business group.
■ Change machine owner.
Support user
What role is given these responsibilities?
■ Request catalog items from the service catalog.
■ Manage their provisioned resources.
Business user
