Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Managing VMM User Roles

As discussed in Chapter 12, VMM implements a role-based access control (RBAC) model for managing administrative permissions. Using this model, each VMM Administrator and Self-Service User is assigned a role. Each role consists of an administrative profile that determines which actions a role member can perform and the scope for which virtual infrastructure objects these rights are applicable.

Four types of user roles are available in VMM, as follows:

• Administrator—Users who are assigned the Administrator role have full rights to the virtual infrastructure and can perform all actions in the VMM Administrator Console. These administrators can create new Delegated Administrator and Self-Service User roles. Only members ...