About Roles

Roles are collections of privileges or permissions that define authorized operations, and usually correspond to an employee's business responsibilities. Roles are assigned using the access control trust manifest. For more information, see About Access Control Policies.

You can configure roles using basic individual CloudControl operations, or use Advanced mode to choose vendor-specific parts of that operation or individual vSphere privileges. The vSphere privileges and CloudControl operations are matched, so whichever privileges you select, the corresponding operations are also selected.

Note: If you save a role after selecting Advanced mode operations, or include vSphere privileges, you will not be able to switch back to Basic mode without removing those operations.