Managing Tenants - Dell DX6000 Administration Manual

Chapter 4. Managing Tenants
This chapter discusses how to manage cluster tenants. A tenant corresponds to a corporation or an
organizational unit and consists of the following DX Storage components, which the Admin Console
creates for you:
• A domain, which is a container for buckets and objects.
• An administrative bucket, named _administrators, and its user list.
Users in the administrative bucket user list are referred to as domain managers, and they are
responsible for maintaining the user lists for the administrative bucket and for the domain.
• A domain protection setting.
The domain protection setting determines what realm has post privileges in the domain.
The terms user list, realm, and domain manager are defined in
Tenant Security".
The following figure shows a simple example of a cluster containing one tenant; and several
domains, buckets, and named objects.
In the figure, a set of authorized users has been given permission to create objects in the photos
bucket of Domain 1. As later sections discuss, you create one domain per tenant and each domain
must conform to certain naming rules.
The following figure shows how a multiple-tenant cluster (named cloud.com) can enable tenants in
one domain (my.cloud.com) to securely access content separately from other tenants.
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