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VDC Manager

The VDC manager users have permissions to consume resources of virtual data centers that have been assigned to them.

A user can be assigned the role of a VDC manager for multiple virtual datacenters. Users in this role are self-sufficient from an application deployment perspective, as long as their utilization is within the allocations of the virtual datacenter.

Note

Virtual datacenter templates are not counted towards this utilization. If the user runs out of resources allocated to the virtual datacenter, the user should contact the infrastructure admin user because allocations of a virtual datacenter can only be modified by the infrastructure admin role.

Specifically, this role has the following capabilities:

  • Application template management capabilities:

    • Use templates from the organization’s and virtual datacenter’s marketplace to deploy applications.

    • Create templates in the virtual datacenter marketplace from application instances in a virtual datacenter. (These templates are accessible to users in that virtual datacenter only.)

    • Download templates from the ThinkAgile CP marketplace to the virtual datacenter marketplace.

  • Application instance management capabilities:

    • Deploy and manage applications inside assigned virtual datacenters.

      Note
      If a virtual network (VNET) NFV instance is running in the virtual datacenter, VDC manager users can modify the NFV instance and may indirectly impact the VNET properties. They cannot directly edit a VNET properties.

    • View all instances across all assigned virtual datacenters.

    • Filter instances views by application status (running, unresponsive, paused, and shutdown).

    • Perform bulk actions (start, restart, delete, shutdown, force shutdown) on instances.

    • Create and manage application groups in a virtual datacenter.

    • Leverage disaster recovery (DR) replication if a virtual datacenter has storage allocations from two or more sites.

  • User management capabilities:

    • View other VDC manager and VDC viewer users of the virtual datacenter.

Note

  • This role cannot view infrastructure admin or infrastructure viewer users.

  • Although this role will not see a list of all infrastructure-level roles, they will get notifications with user name and role for actions initiated by infrastructure admin users, if those actions pertain to their virtual datacenter.

  • The chat support widget for VDC manager users is disabled by default when creating a new virtual datacenter. For more details, see the following topic:

    Enabling the chat support widget