Secure Partitioned Administration
Secure Management of Shared Storage Assets
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is often connected to multiple hosts and shared by multiple divisions in a company (or by multiple companies). This means one storage system often has multiple storage administrators. As a result, compartmentalized management of the storage system is required.
Hitachi Resource Partition Manager software addresses this need by enabling administrative partitioning of Virtual Storage Platform resources. It can be used with local authentication on VSP. It can also be integrated into corporate directory services and security systems using standard management interfaces, such as Active Directory, LDAP and RADIUS. It supports open and mainframe storage configurations.
Solving security and audit or compliance issues, Hitachi Resource Partition Manager enables management of shared storage assets by different groups.
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Resource Groups
There are 5 kinds of resources that can be assigned to resource groups. These are available to flexibly compose virtual private storage systems, such as sharing a port in 2 organizations but not a parity group.
Internal and External Authentication
Hitachi Resource Partition Manager can be used with local authentication on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. It also can be integrated into corporate directory services and security systems using standard management interfaces. External authentication of privileged users allows organizations to leverage existing authentication data and processes with support for:
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