Administrator Guide

NOTE: Users must be added to the administrators list before they can be made a tenant administrator or a volume
administrator. Only the following users can be administrators:
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● ○ Users in the Active Directory domain or UNIX domain of the default tenant
○ Local users of the default tenant or any other tenant
Create a New Tenant
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, select Tenants.
4. Click Create Tenant.
The Create Tenant wizard opens and guides you through the following steps:
a. Create Tenant
b. Public IPs
c. DNS
d. Limits
e. Active Directory
f. NFS User Repository
Create Tenant – Step 1
The tenant value must be a valid tenant name The name can contain letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens.
Steps
1. In the Create Tenant window, type a tenant name in the Tenant field.
2. Click Next.
Create Tenant – Step 2
Steps
1. In the Create Tenant window, click Public IPs.
NOTE: For FluidFS, a Public IP is the same thing as a VIP, the terms are used interchangeably.
2. Type one or more virtual IP addresses for file access in the VIP field. If you have clients coming from behind a router, you
should define one VIP for each physical network port. if the clients are not coming from behind a router, you can use only
one VIP.
3. Click Add or Remove.
4. Click Next.
Create Tenant – Step 3
Steps
1. In the Create Tenant window, click DNS.
2. Type one or more DNS Server IP addresses in the DNS Server IP Addresses field.
3. Click Next.
4. Type DNS suffixes in the DNS Suffix field.
5. Click Add or Remove.
6. Click Next.
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