Default Roles and Permissions

CloudControl ships with a number of preconfigured roles to help administrators configure granular role-based access controls (RBAC) in the virtual environment. A role is a collection of access privileges. Each access privilege is mapped to a specific operation. For example, power on VM operation is mapped to the privilege, and this privilege belongs to a few roles such as and .

The role is the super-set of all access privileges available in CloudControl. A user mapped to this role is capable of performing any operation in the virtual/cloud environment as well as configuring the CloudControl appliance itself.

The CloudControl preconfigured roles are grouped into the following categories: