Administrator Guide

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Storage Center Administration
Storage Center provides centralized, block-level storage that can be accessed by Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or SAS.
Adding and Organizing Storage Centers
An individual Storage Manager user can view and manage only the Storage Centers that have been mapped to his or her account.
This restriction means that 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 group(s) assigned to the Storage Center user determine the access that is allowed in the Dell Storage Manager Client.
• The rst time a Storage Center is added to Storage Manager Data Collector, you must specify a Storage Center user account
that has the Administrator privilege. When the Storage Center is subsequently added for other Storage Manager users, you can
specify Storage Center user accounts of any privilege level.
• If your Storage 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 Manager 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 denes
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 dierent role in Storage Manager than in
Storage Center. This role dierence aects small details of that user’s access.
Related link
Storage Manager User Privileges
User Privilege Levels
Each user is assigned a single privilege level. Storage Center has three levels of user privilege.
Privilege Level
Allowed Access
Administrator Read and write access to the entire Storage Center (no
restrictions). All Administrators have the same predened
privileges. Only Administrators can manage users and user
groups.
Volume Manager Read and write access to the folders associated with the
assigned user groups. Users with this privilege level can create
volumes in the allowed volume folders and map them to existing
servers in the allowed server folders.
Reporter Read-only access to the folders associated with the assigned
user group(s).
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