Administrator Guide

Storage Center Administration
Storage Center provides centralized, block-level storage that can be accessed by Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or SAS connections.
Topics:
• Adding and Organizing Storage Centers
• Managing Volumes
• Managing Data Reduction
• Managing Snapshot Profiles
• Managing Storage Profiles
• Managing QoS Profiles
• Importing Volumes from an External Storage Array
Adding and Organizing Storage Centers
Adding and organizing Storage Centers can only be done using Storage Manager connected to a Data Collector.
Note the following restrictions about Storage Manager user accounts:
● An individual Storage Manager user can view and manage only the Storage Centers that have been mapped to his or her
account. In other words, the Storage Centers that are visible to one Storage Manager user are not necessarily visible to
another user.
● When a Storage Manager user adds a Storage Center, he or she must provide credentials for a Storage Center user. The
privilege level and user groups assigned to the Storage Center user determine the access that is allowed on the Data
Collector.
● The first time you add a Storage Center to the Data Collector, you must specify a Storage Center user account that has the
Administrator privilege. When you subsequently add the Storage Center for other Storage Manager users, you can specify
Storage Center user accounts of any privilege level.
● If yourStorage Manager user account has the Reporter privilege, you must specify a Storage Center user account that has
the Reporter privilege.
NOTE:
A Storage Manager Administrator can also use the Data Collector to grant Storage Center access to a Storage
Manager user with the Reporter privilege.
● Manage a Storage Center using one Data Collector only. Issues can occur if a Storage Center is managed by multiple Data
Collectors.
Storage Center User Privileges and User Groups
Storage Center groups determine which storage objects can be viewed by the Storage Center user, and the privilege level
defines what the user can do.
NOTE:
Storage Center user privileges and Storage Manager user privileges share the same names, but they are not the
same. Storage Center user privileges control access to Storage Center functionality, and Storage Manager user privileges
control access to Storage Manager functionality. A user may have a different role in Storage Manager than in Storage
Center. This role difference affects small details of that user’s access.
Related concepts
Storage Manager User Privileges on page 651
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