14.2.3. Setting Up a Power User
Penelope is now an experienced office manager at ViewGen Inc. Penelope now has additional responsibilities, and occasionally needs to take charge of recruitment tasks, such as scheduling interviews and following up on reference checks, if the HR Manager is on vacation, or needs additional help. As per corporate policy, Penelope needs to use a particular application for this task. As this is an occasional task, Penelope would rather use a separate virtual machine to run the recruitment application.
For Penelope to create a new virtual machine through the User Portal, she needs PowerUserRole
permissions for the data center in which the new virtual machine will reside. This is because to create a new virtual machine, she needs to be able to make changes to several components within the data center, including creating the virtual machine disk image in the storage domain. However, note that this is not the same as assigning DataCenterAdmin
privileges to Penelope. As a PowerUser for a data center, Penelope can perform virtual machine-specific actions on virtual machines within the data center. She cannot perform data center-level operations such as attaching hosts or storage to a data center.