11.5. Virtual Disks and Permissions
11.5.1. Managing System Permissions for a Virtual Disk
The system administrator, as the SuperUser, manages all aspects of the Administration Portal. More specific administrative roles can be assigned to other users. These restricted administrator roles are useful for empowering a user with certain administrative privileges that limit them to a specific resource: a DataCenterAdmin role has administrator privileges only for the assigned data center, a ClusterAdmin has administrator privileges only for the assigned cluster, a StorageAdmin has administrator privileges only for the assigned storage domain, and so forth.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides two default virtual disk user roles, but no default virtual disk administrator roles. One of these user roles, the DiskCreator role, enables the administration of virtual disks from the User Portal. This role can be applied to specific virtual machines, to a data center, to a specific storage domain, or to the whole virtualized environment; this is useful to allow different users to manage different virtual resources.
The virtual disk creator role permits the following actions:
- Create, edit, and remove virtual disks associated with a virtual machine or other resources; and
- Edit user permissions for virtual disks.
Note
You can only assign roles and permissions to existing users.