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Let Users Perform Some Administrative Tasks

Administrators can give users permission to perform some administrative tasks on VMware virtual machines. Users can then perform the following actions without contacting an administrator:

• Change the administrative password when creating a virtual machine.
• Control the power status of a virtual machine. The administrator can let users turn on, turn off, and suspend virtual machines that are assigned to them.
• Take a snapshot of a virtual machine. A snapshot is a record of a virtual machine at a certain point in time.
• Change the configuration of a virtual machine after the original provisioning.

To let users perform some administrative tasks, select the desired settings in the Reservation Manager, Manager your resource pools option. Double-click the desired resource pool and select or clear the fields