Creating resource groups and managing storage system resources

You can divide a provisioned storage system into resource groups that allow you to manage the storage system as multiple virtual private storage systems. Configuring resource groups involves creating resource groups, moving storage system resources into the resource groups, and assigning resource groups to user groups.

Parent Topic

• Provisioning

  The advanced provisioning software products and features of the storage systems enable you to implement the appropriate provisioning strategies for your operational environment and improve performance and capacity utilization. Dynamic Provisioning allows you to reserve virtual storage capacity based on anticipated future capacity needs using virtual volumes instead of physical disk capacity, providing lower initial cost, greater efficiency, and ease of storage management.

Child Topics

• When to use resource groups
• System configuration using resource groups
• Resource group examples

  The following examples illustrate how you can configure resource groups on your storage system.

• Meta_resource
• Resource lock
• User groups
• Resource group assignments
• Operations in a resource group for NAS modules
• Resource group rules, restrictions, and guidelines
• Managing resource groups

  Managing resource groups includes creating, editing, and deleting resource groups.

• Resource access requirements for Device Manager - Storage Navigator operations

  When you log on to Device Manager - Storage Navigator, your user access privileges determine the resources you can view and the operations you can perform. User access privileges are determined by the user groups to which the user belongs and the resources assigned to those user groups. To perform an operation on the storage system, you must have access to the resources (for example, volumes, pools, ports) that are required for the operation.