Managing SVMs

Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) administrators can administer SVMs and its resources, such as volumes, protocols, and services, depending on the capabilities assigned by the cluster administrator. SVM administrators cannot create, modify, or delete SVMs.

Note: SVM administrators cannot log in to System Manager.

SVM administrators might have all or some of the following administration capabilities:

Data access protocol configuration
Configure data access protocols, such as NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel (FC) protocol (Fibre Channel over Ethernet included)
Services configuration
Configure services, such as LDAP, NIS, and DNS
Storage management
Manage volumes, quotas, qtrees, and files
LUN management
Manage LUNs in a SAN environment
Snapshot copy management
Manage Snapshot copies of the volumes
Monitoring SVM
Monitor jobs, network connection, network interface, and SVM health

For more information about SVM administrator capabilities, see the Clustered Data ONTAP System Administration Guide for SVM Administrators.