Changing user rights
Find out how to manage user permissions for the vSphere client
Last updated 29th June 2020
Objective
The purpose of this guide is to explain the user rights management regarding the OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud solution.
Learn how to manage user rights on your infrastructure.
Requirements
- a Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure
- access to the OVHcloud Control Panel
Instructions
In your OVHcloud Control Panel, open the "Hosted Private Cloud" section, then select your service under Private Cloud in the left-hand navigation bar.
From the main page of the service, click on the Users tab. Click on ... in the row of the user concerned to open the context menu.
From this menu, you can change the rights of your vSphere users per data centre.
| Access | Possible right | Description |
|---|---|---|
| vSphere access | None / Read-only / Read & Write | Global user rights on vSphere |
| Access to the VM Network | None / Read-only / Provider | Management rights over the public network section (a.k.a VM Network in the vSphere interface) |
| Access to the V(X)LANs | None / Read-only / Provider / Administrator | Management rights over the private network section (VxLan and VLAN) |
| Add resources | Yes / No | Right to add additional resources through the OVHcloud plugin in the vSphere client (Host, Datastore, Veeam Backup) |
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