How to create custom vCenter Server Roles

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The VMware vCenter comes with several privileges grouped in Roles by default. The privileges and Roles allow the administrator to configure a granular security policy defining individual user rights.
On the vCenter there are three system roles as follows:

• No Access
• Read-Only
• Administrator

The system roles are permanent. there is no way to modify them. The No Access and Read-Only roles are very useful for restricting user access quickly.

The six default role samples are as follows:

• Virtual Machine Power User
• Virtual Machine User
• Resource Pool Administrator
• VMware Consolidated Backup User
• Datastore Consumer
• Network Administrator

While it is possible use the default sample roles as they are, it’s also possible to use them as a starting point to create custom roles. It’s considered a best pratice not to modify the default roles because they can be useful for future reference.

Now let’s create a custom Role.

Log in your vSphere Web Client and click Administration:

Select Roles and press +:

As you can see, a window will open allowing to define the name of new Role:

Name the new role (in our example we used: Vm Configuration Manager). Now scroll down to the Virtual machine privileges and check Configuration:

Review the list of the vCenter Roles, verify that the presence of the new Role: