Administrator Guide

Antivirus – SMB shares are isolated to their tenant. If any shares have antivirus enabled, they utilize the virus scanners that are defined
at the clusterwide level.
File Access Notifications – File access notifications are set at a clusterwide level in FluidFS. If multitenancy is in use, only one tenant
can utilize the external audit server feature. Separation of file access notifications between different tenants requires multiple FluidFS
clusters. Alternatively, you can use SACL auditing, which is separated between tenants for file access notifications.
NDMP Backup – You can back up any of the volumes using any of the VIPs (or physical controller IPs), regardless of multitenancy.
Separation of NDMP between different tenants requires multiple FluidFS clusters.
Replication and Disaster Recovery – The cluster administrator has the ability to create a partner relationship between the tenants on
the source system and the tenants on the remote system.
Enable Multitenancy
System administrators can enable multitenancy using Dell Storage Manager or the CLI. When multitenancy is enabled, the system
administrator can no longer see or control tenants’ contents. A tenant’s content can be managed only by the tenant administrator.
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. In the FluidFS cluster status section of the Summary panel, click Edit FluidFS Cluster Settings.
The Edit FluidFS Cluster Settings dialog box opens.
3. Select the Multitenancy Enabled checkbox.
4. Click OK.
Disable Multitenancy
Tenant administrators can disable multitenancy using Dell Storage Manager or the CLI.
Prerequisites
Multitenancy can be disabled when only the default tenant exists; that is, to disable multitenancy, all tenants except for the default tenant
must be deleted. A tenant can be deleted only when all NAS volumes on that tenant have been deleted. NAS volumes can be deleted only
when all SMB shares and NFS exports have been deleted from the volume.
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. In the FluidFS cluster status section of the Summary panel, click Edit FluidFS Cluster Settings.
The Edit FluidFS Cluster Settings dialog box opens.
3. Clear the Multitenancy Enabled checkbox.
4. Click OK.
Multitenancy – System Administration Access
About this task
This procedure grants cluster administrator access to a user.
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, select Cluster Maintenance.
4. Click the Mail & Administrators tab.
5. Click Grant Administration Privilege.
The Grant Administration Privilege dialog box opens.
6. Select the Global Administration Permission Enabled checkbox.
When this checkbox is enabled, the user that you select has permission to manage anything on the cluster.
7. Click Next.
The Select User dialog box opens.
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