Could not create VM from Service Management Portal API

Question

Hello,
I need to create a VM using the SMP API.
Sending the following request: 
https://servername:30006/subscriptionID/services/systemcenter/vmm/VirtualMachines
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 3132
x-ms-principal-id: 
Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose
Accept: application/json;odata=verbose
User-Agent: Boss/0.1 
    "CloudId": "892f3c2e-7d43-4340-9b3c-99269885cdf6",
    "ComputerName": "BOSSTest",
    "Name": "BOSS Temp Machine Name",
    "StampId": "5dfdab3b-b3c7-45c6-bfc4-a95636c4542e",
    "VMTemplateId": "39153713-aa56-4f68-a58f-6687a1272fd2",
    "Description": "Test Automation",
    "DiskIO": null,
    "Dismiss": null,
    "Domain": null,
    "DynamicMemoryBufferPercentage": null,
    "DynamicMemoryDemandMB": null,a
    "DynamicMemoryEnabled": null,
    "DynamicMemoryMaximumMB": null,
    "Enabled": null,
    "ExcludeFromPRO": null,
    "ExpectedCPUUtilization": null,
    "FailedJobID": null,
    "FullName": "",
    "HardwareProfileId": null,
    "HasPassthroughDisk": null,
    "HasSavedState": null,
    "HasVMAdditions": null,
    "HeartbeatEnabled": null,
    "HighlyAvailable": null,
    "IsFaultTolerant": null,
    "IsHighlyAvailable": null,
    "IsUndergoingLiveMigration": null,
    "LastRestoredCheckpointId": null,
    "LibraryGroup": null,
    "LimitCPUForMigration": null,
    "LimitCPUFunctionality": null,
    "LinuxAdministratorSSHKey": null,
    "LinuxDomainName": null,
    "LocalAdminPassword": "!!123abc",
    "LocalAdminRunAsAccountName": null,
    "LocalAdminUserName": "Administrator",
    "Location": null,
    "MarkedAsTemplate": null,
    "Memory": null,
    "MemoryAssignedMB": null,
    "MemoryAvailablePercentage": null,
    "MemoryWeight": null,
    "ModifiedTime": null,
    "MostRecentTaskId": null,
    "NetworkUtilization": null,
    "[email protected]": "Collection(VMM.NewVMVirtualNetworkAdapterInput)",
    "NumLock": null,
    "OperatingSystem": null,
    "OperatingSystemShutdownEnabled": null,
    "Operation": null,
    "OrganizationName": null,
    "Owner": {
        "RoleID": null,
        "RoleName": null,
        "UserName": null,
        "odata.type": "VMM.UserAndRole"
    "Password": null,
    "Path": null,
    "PerfCPUUtilization": null,
    "PerfDiskBytesRead": null,
    "PerfDiskBytesWrite": null,
    "PerfNetworkBytesRead": null,
    "PerfNetworkBytesWrite": null,
    "ProductKey": null,
    "Retry": null,
    "RunAsAccountUserName": null,
    "RunGuestAccount": null,
    "ServiceDeploymentErrorMessage": null,
    "ServiceId": null,
    "SharePath": null,
    "SourceObjectType": null,
    "StartAction": null,
    "StartVM": true,
    "Status": null,
    "StatusString": null,
    "StopAction": null,
    "Tag": null,
    "TimeSynchronizationEnabled": null,
    "TimeZone": null,
    "TotalSize": null,
    "Undo": null,
    "UndoDisksEnabled": null,
    "UpgradeDomain": null,
    "UseCluster": null,
    "UseLAN": null,
    "UserName": null,
    "VMBaseConfigurationId": null,
    "VMCPath": null,
    "VMConfigResource": null,
    "VMHostName": null,
    "VMId": null,
    "VMResource": null,
    "VMResourceGroup": null,
    "VirtualHardDiskId": null,
    "VirtualMachineState": null,
    "VirtualizationPlatform": null,
    "WorkGroup": null,
    "odata.type": "VMM.VirtualMachine"
i only get the response: 
500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:21:46 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0, Microsoft-IIS/8.0
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET, ASP.NET
Cache-Control: no-cache
DataServiceVersion: 1.0;
request-id: 853d7c54-ece5-0000-ff09-3e85e5ecce01
Content-Length: 0
When i look at the Service Management logs i found this: 
Resource provider unexpected exception for request with verb 'POST', operation name 'Outgoing tenant proxy call', request URI 'https://svtdcspf01.tdc.eb-grp.net:8090/SC2012/VMM/a43cf9d2-3353-4611-969b-d45616bfe212/Microsoft.Management.Odata.svc/VirtualMachines',
 version '', client request Id '', server request Id '31098b27ca9f4301a7b091e4d6c4db3e.2013-11-29T13:21:44.6146313Z', status code 'InternalServerError', reason 'Internal Server Error', body '{"error":{"code":"","message":{"lang":"de-AT","value":"An
error occurred while processing this request."},"innererror":{"message":"<ErrorInfo>\r\n  <DisplayableErrorCode>11418</DisplayableErrorCode>\r\n  <ErrorType>Error</ErrorType>\r\n  <Problem>You
have no access rights for at least one of the required objects for this operation.</Problem>\r\n  <RecommendedActionCLI>Apply the Virtual Machine Manager administrator to obtain the required
permissions.</RecommendedActionCLI>\r\n  <DetailedCode>None</DetailedCode>\r\n  <SymbolicErrorCode>ObjectsInaccessible</SymbolicErrorCode>\r\n</ErrorInfo>","type":"System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException","stacktrace":"
  at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ThrowInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)\r\n   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)","internalexception":{"message":"<ErrorInfo>\r\n
 <DisplayableErrorCode>11418</DisplayableErrorCode>\r\n  <ErrorType>Error</ErrorType>\r\n  <Problem>You have no access rights for at least one of the required objects for this operation</Problem>\r\n  <RecommendedActionCLI>Apply
the Virtual Machine Manager administrator to obtain the required permissions.</RecommendedActionCLI>\r\n  <DetailedCode>None</DetailedCode>\r\n  <SymbolicErrorCode>ObjectsInaccessible</SymbolicErrorCode>\r\n</ErrorInfo>","type":"Microsoft.SystemCenter.Foundation.Common.VMMErrorException","stacktrace":""}}}}'.
Can someone help me? I have no idea which permissions i need!
BR and Thanks in advice!
Emanuel 

Answer 1

Just to make sure, have you done this step stated at the link below?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn457792.aspx
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