Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide

Objective 1.1 – Configure and administer role-based access control

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a common approach to managing authorizations and permissions, based on specific roles assigned to specific users or groups.

In VMware vSphere, roles are just sets of privileges used to authorize users (or groups) for specific vSphere inventory objects.

VMware vSphere provides the following four categories of permissions, from the most general to the most specific:

• Group membership in the SSO domain: Some users of the vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) domain, such as the default administrator, have specific, implicit permissions. For more information, refer to Objective 1.3.
• Global permissions: These permissions are applied to a global root object, ...