The SVM/vServer has been a concept on ONTAP for a long time now. Sadly it does not seem that even with 9.14 it has become possible for a SVM user to login to a SVM and control it like their own little storage system?
This is however possible with StorageGRID where it works just great... you basically setup the quota of the tennant, and then the tennant creats their own buckets and logins etc.. Are we the only ones looking for a similar experiance on ONTAP? As far as I know the only way for a tennant to control thier own SVM, would be to use SSH or REST-API ? Maybe I have overlooked something and others solve this in a different way?
#Tennants on ONTAP?
dire talon
raven zodiac
I'd be interested in this as well
chrome totem
the SVM tenant admin (vsadmin) can log in to his SVM through any SVM management LIF and administer it to some extent (he can't configure cluster-wide resources like disks, aggregates, network interfaces etc., but he sure can create and modify volumes, snapshots, client protocols, etc.)
it's just the GUI (System Manager) that doesn't work
knotty dew
I've been wanting tenant quotas for years. We're happy with the CLI, but our customers aren't. The lack of a quota like StorageGRID was a contributing factor to why we went with another vendor for block storage a few years ago.
chrome totem
how does quota relate to block storage? Quota is a CIFS/NFS thing 🤔
knotty dew
With ontap 9.13, there's a storage-limit that can be applied to the SVM. That's the closest equivalent I've seen to meet our needs, but does mean each tenant requires their own SVM. I haven't had a chance to try it and see what surprises there are.
chrome totem
ah I see what you mean now. Yes, limiting the SVM is possible now (it could be done before but only by aggregate so it would only work for larger clusters or tenants that can be billed for used capacity). I don't see the problem with "each tenant requires their own SVM" though, isn't that kinda like what multi-tenancy means? giving each tenant/customer their own SVM?
dire talon
It is strange why it works (mostly) from command-line, but no one bothered implementing it in the GUI... It's not very hosting-friendly even though I think that was somewhat of the point with vservers to begin with... We don't ask for much, just a simple GUI like the one in StorageGRID where you are able to do simple things that only influence your own vserver...