Oracle VM Manager: Managing Groups

Creating Groups in Oracle VM Manager is a convenient way to manage the endless number of users. It can be a very exhaustive task to assign privileges to the users and thus it is better to create groups for specific functions. That way we can copy users to those groups implying that all of the users can have the specific group functions that are designed for them.

Now let's go ahead with some Group Management tasks. By default, during installation, two groups are created namely, the "Public Group" and "My Workplace". The Public Group has all public virtual machines available to it and generally all users can deploy and view the VMs in this group. The My Workplace group contains private VMs and only the owners of the VMs can view VMs in this group.

Let's quickly check out some of the tasks within Group Management:

Creating a Group

Perform the following steps to create a Group:

1. On the Administration page, click on the Group tab.
2. Click on the Create button and enter the group name and description:

3. Select users for this group and click the user name in the Available Users to add them to the Selected Users:

4. Click Confirm to see the creation of the groups filled with desired users.

5. And Voila! Our Group has been created.