1. A management appliance, said management appliance comprising: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to said at least one processor, said memory comprising executable code stored thereon such that said at least one processor, upon executing said executable code: dispenses an image corresponding to a virtual machine to a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of interconnected computing devices, such that at least one of said computing devices implements said virtual machine; establishes a trusted relationship with said virtual machine implemented on said at least one of said computing devices; provides a user with access to said virtual machine based on said trusted relationship without further authentication credentials from said user; and filters a request for access to the virtual machine based on access privileges of the user, wherein the filtering comprises, in response to a determination that said user has access to said management appliance and not said virtual machine, restricting said user's access to said virtual machine based on credentials provided by said user upon accessing said management appliance.