Roles and Permissions
XenServer is shipped with the following six pre-established roles:
Pool Administrator (Pool Admin): Like LSU, this role grants you rights to perform all operations on XenServer pools and hosts
Pool Operator (Pool Operator): This role can do everything on XenServer pools and hosts apart from adding/removing users and modifying their roles
Virtual Machine Power Administrator (VM Power Admin): This role grants you rights to create and manage virtual machines in the pool
Virtual Machine Administrator (VM Admin): This role is similar to a VM Power Admin but does not grant you the right to migrate VMs or perform snapshots
Virtual Machine Operator (VM Operator): This role grants you the right to perform start/stop/reset operations
Read-only (Read Only): This role grants you the right to view resource pool and performance data
Definitions of RBAC Roles and Permissions
After roles, it is time to discover which permissions are available for each role. The following tables summarize...