Teams

Last updated: May 12, 2026Latest Frontend Version:

Prerequisites

Access Level:

Sub-admin, Admin

Permission Requirements

• Basic Team Interaction
  • View own teams
  • Edit own teams (depending on stature per-team)
  • Add users to any team arbitrarily
  • Modify any team membership arbitrarily
  • Remove users from any team arbitrarily

Teams are resource constraint groups in tiCrypt. They serve three purposes:

1. Resource quotas: each team defines total and per-user limits for CPU cores, memory, and storage. Every VM and drive belongs to a team and consumes quota from that team's allocation.
2. User activation: a user must belong to at least one team to be active. Removing a user from all teams automatically deactivates their account.
3. Administrative delegation: you can assign teams to sub-admins, who then manage the team's members and resources.

When creating teams, consider organizing them by department, research group, or resource tier. Setting a quota value to zero removes the limit, granting unlimited access to that resource type.

Access Teams

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.

View the Teams' Details

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team to view.
5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
6. View the team name, number of members, description, creation and last modified dates, quotas, and member details in the left panel.

View the Teams' Quotas

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team whose quotas you want to view.
5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
6. Scroll down in the left panel under quotas.
7. View total cores, memory, and drive allocation per team.

Create a New Team

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Click the Create new team button in the top right panel.
5. In the pop-up, enter the team name, optional ID and description.
6. Click Create new team.

Add Users to Teams

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team to add users to.
5. Click the Manage member(s) button in the top right panel.
6. In the pop-up, enter the names of the users to add to the team.
7. Click Save.

Edit Teams' Metadata

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team whose metadata you want to edit.
5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
6. Select Edit metadata.
7. In the pop-up, edit the team name, optional ID and description.
8. Once done, click Update.

Edit Teams' Quotas

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team whose quotas you want to edit.
5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
6. Select Edit quotas.
7. In the pop-up, edit the total and per user VM cores and memory, storage pools and devices.
8. Once done, click Save.

Remove Teams' Quotas

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team whose quotas you want to remove.
5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
6. Select Edit quotas.
7. In the pop-up, click the Remove team quotas button in the bottom left.
8. Click Save.

caution

Removing team quotas or setting them to 0 enables the team to use unlimited resources.

Assign a Team to a Sub-admin

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team you want to assign to a sub-admin.
5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
6. Select Assign to subadmin(s).
7. In the pop-up, enter the sub-admin name.
8. Click Assign.

note

When you promote a team member with the sub-admin role to team manager, the system automatically assigns the team as a managed object to the team manager in the Sub-admin Managed Objects section.

Make Team Announcements

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team to make an announcement to.
5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
6. Select Make an announcement.
7. In the pop-up, enter the team message.
8. Click Send.

Refresh All Teams' Metadata

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Click the Refresh button in the top right panel.

Remove Team Members

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team to remove members from.
5. Click the Manage member(s) button in the top right panel.
6. In the pop-up, click the Delete button next to the team members you want to remove.
7. Click Save.

note

Removing members from a team also removes their team membership for that team.

Delete a Team

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Teams section.
3. Click Teams in the left panel.
4. Select the team you want to delete.
5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
6. Select Delete.
7. In the pop-up, click Delete.

note

Before deleting a team, you must remove all its members.