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Table 4. Tenant Role Overview
Role Description
Tenant Administrator Typically a line-of-business administrator, business
manager, or IT administrator who is responsible for a
tenant. Tenant administrators congure
vRealize Automation for the needs of their organizations.
They are responsible for user and group management,
tenant branding and notications, and business policies
such as approvals and entitlements. They also track
resource usage by all users within the tenant and initiate
reclamation requests for virtual machines.
Fabric Administrator Manages physical machines and compute resources
assigned to their fabric groups and creates and manages
the reservations and policies associated with those
resources within the scope of their tenant. They also
manage property groups, machine prexes, and the
property dictionary that are used across all tenants and
business groups.
Note If you add the fabric administrator role to a system-
wide role such as IaaS administrator or system
administrator, the fabric administrator can create
reservations for any tenant, not just their own.
Blueprint Architects Umbrella term for the individuals who are responsible for
creating blueprint components and assembling the
blueprints that dene catalog items for consumers to
request from the service catalog. These roles are typically
assigned to individuals in the IT department, such as
architects or analysts.
Catalog Administrator Creates and manages catalog services and manages the
placement of catalog items into services.
Approval Administrator Denes approval policies. These policies can be applied to
catalog requests through entitlements that a tenant
administrator or business group manager manage.
Approver Any user of vRealize Automation, for example, a line
manager, nance manager, or project manager, can be
designated as an approver as part of an approval policy.
Business Group Manager Manages one or more business groups. Typically a line
manager or project manager. Business group managers
entitlements for their groups in the service catalog. They
can request and manage items on behalf of users in their
groups.
Support User A role in a business group. Support users can request and
manage catalog items on behalf of other members of their
groups. This role is typically an executive administrator or
department administrator.
Business User Any user in the system can be a consumer of IT services.
Users can request catalog items from the service catalog
and manage their provisioned resources.
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