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Creating an organization administrator

Use Colt® Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud FoundationTM to create a new user as an organization administrator or change an existing user into an organization administrator. Organization administrators use the VMware Cloud Director Web Console, tenant portal, and vCloud OpenAPI to manage users and groups in their organization and assign them roles, including the organization administrator role. 

Creating a new user as an organization administrator
Changing a user to an organization administrator

Creating a new user as an organization administrator

To create a new user as an organization administrator:

  1. Click Administration.

    The Colt Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation™ portal shows the users in your organization.
Administration (showing Users)
  1. Click NEW.

    The Create User window appears.
The Create User window
  1. In the Create User window, complete the following fields:
Field Description
User name Type a user name for the account.
Password Type a password for the account.
Confirm password Re-type the password for the account.
Enable Turn this option on to enable the account.
Configure user's quota Select this option to view the Quotas section for a user after creating the organization administrator.
Available roles Select Organization Administrator.
Full name Type the user's first and last name.
Email address Type the user's email address.
Phone number Type the user's phone number.
IM Type the user's instant message user name.
All VMs quota Select the number for the quota of the total virtual machines for the user. To set the quota to limitless, select the Unlimited checkbox.
Running VMs quota Select the number of running virtual machines for the user. To set the quota to limitless, select the Unlimited checkbox.
  1. Click Save.

    Colt Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud FoundationTM creates the organization administrator user.

Changing a user to an organization administrator

To change a user to an organization administrator:

  1. Click Administration.

    The Colt Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation™ portal shows the users in your organization.
Administration (showing Users)
  1. Select the radio button of the user to change, then click EDIT.

    The Edit User window appears.
The Edit User window
  1. In the Edit User window, edit the following fields as needed:
Field Description
User name Type a user name for the account.
Password Type a password for the account.
Confirm password Re-type the password for the account.
Enable Select this option to enable the account.
Available roles Select Organization Administrator.
Full name Type the user's first and last name.
Email address Type the user's email address.
Phone number Type the user's phone number.
IM Type the user's instant message user name.
All VMs quota Select the number for the quota of the total virtual machines for the user. To set the quota to limitless, select the Unlimited checkbox.
Running VMs quota Select the number of running virtual machines for the user. To set the quota to limitless, select the Unlimited checkbox.
  1. Click Save.

    Colt Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud FoundationTM changes the user to an organization administrator.