SFS Overview

You can have CA VM:Director manage the enrollment of users and allocation of space in SFS by implementing the various SFS configuration and management functions in CA VM:Director. These functions enable you to describe your SFS configuration to CA VM:Director, including which file pools and storage groups you want to manage through CA VM:Director and how much space can be allocated in each storage group. They further let you specify who can enroll users under CA VM:Director management, in which file pools they can enroll users, and how much space they can allocate to users in each storage group.

The user IDs that describe your SFS configuration to CA VM:Director are SFS administrators. The user IDs that perform user administration tasks in SFS through CA VM:Director management are SFS managers.

All but one of the configuration functions for CA VM:Director SFS are performed by SFS administrators. The only function that must be performed by the CA VM:Director system administrator rather than the SFS administrator is identifying the SFS administrators to CA VM:Director. Most of the daily management functions for SFS using CA VM:Director are performed by SFS managers.

This section contains the following topics:

SFS Administrators

SFS Managers

CA VM:Director Configuration for SFS User Administration

Allocation of Space in User Storage Groups