This section describes the types of storage system administrators and defines their expected roles in managing the system and the associated storage subsystems.
- Global Administrators
- Global Administrators can manage everything in the system: file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, storage devices and their components. Also, the Global Administrator creates and manages SMU user profiles (Server Administrators, Storage Administrators, Server+Storage Administrators, and other Global Administrators). Global Administrators also control what servers and storage devices each administrator can access.
- Storage Administrators
- Storage Administrators manage storage devices, as specified in the administrator profile
created by the Global Administrator.
Storage Administrators can manage only storage devices and their components (racks, physical disks, SDs, and storage pools). Storage Administrators cannot manage file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, and they cannot manage users.
- Server Administrators
- Server Administrators manage servers and clusters, as specified in the administrator
profile created by the Global Administrator. Server Administrators cannot manage storage
devices.
Server Administrators can manage file systems and file services such as CIFS Shares, NFS Exports, and they can manage file system related features and functions such as snapshots, quotas, and migration policies and schedules.
- Server+Storage Administrators
- Server+Storage Administrators manage servers, clusters, and storage devices, as
specified in the administrator profile created by the Global Administrator.
Server+Storage administrators can manage everything Server Administrators and Storage Administrators can manage: file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, and they can also manage storage devices and their components.