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Task Overview

Among the specific tasks that you, as a CA VM:Director SFS manager, can perform are the following:

Enrolling users in SFS through CA VM:Director

When your SFS administrator made you an SFS manager, the administrator specified which file pools and user storage groups are available to you for allocation. You are authorized to allocate space to the user IDs you manage only in these file pools and user storage groups.

You were also given a set of default SFS enrollment values. These default values allow you to enroll SFS users quickly. They include the number of 4K blocks of file space that you will be allocating to each new SFS user, the file pool in which you will be assigning this file space, and the user storage group in which you will be assigning this space. If you find that you often change these defaults to the same value, speak to your SFS administrator about changing your default enrollment values.

Modifying or deleting the space a user is allocated

When some users use up the space allocated to them, they will usually ask for more. Eventually you will reach your allocation limit and not be able to satisfy their requests for additional space. If you find that you are running out of space to allocate (the space you are allowed to allocate, not the space that exists on the system), look for some users who are using only a small percent of their available space. You can reduce the amount of space allocated to these user IDs, and then reallocate this space to other user IDs that need more space or to new ones you may need to add.

Checking the current SFS usage of each user ID you manage

We recommend that you periodically check the SFS usage of the user IDs you manage. This includes checking users’ file space allocations and file pool usage information.