VMware Cloud on AWS differs from on-premises vSphere

VMware Cloud on AWS has vSphere running on Amazon's bare-metal hardware with its cloud-automation engine. VMware administrators have access to all of the required interfaces, including VMware vSphere Web Client, both HTML5 and Flash-based, with all of the needed API integrations. This is a VMware-managed service and role-based access control (RBAC) will be properly working. 

Following is the configuration with specific users profile:

  • VMware manages the VMware Cloud on AWS environments and as such, rights are assigned to cloudadmin@vsphere.local for user access. This might cause incompatibilities with products that require administrator@vsphere.local access to an environment.
  • Users are ...

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