To create an HCP tenant:
1.In the top-level menu of the System Management Console, click Tenants.
2.On the Tenants page, click Create Tenant.
oIf the Make default tenant/namespace option is present, leave it unselected. This option does not appear if the default tenant already exists or if the system does not support creation of the default tenant.
oIn the Tenant Name field, type a unique name for the tenant. HCP derives the hostname for the tenant from this name. The hostname is used in URLs for access to the tenant and its namespaces.
In English, the name you specify for a tenant must be from one through 63 characters long, can contain only alphanumeric characters and hyphens (-), and cannot start or end with a hyphen. In other languages, because the derived English hostname cannot be more than 63 characters long, the name that you specify can be limited to fewer than 63 characters.
Tenant names cannot contain special characters other than hyphens and are not case sensitive. White space is not allowed.
Tenant names cannot start with xn-- (that is, the characters x and n followed by two hyphens).
You can reuse tenant names that are not currently in use. So, for example, if you delete a tenant, you can create a new tenant with the same name that you originally assigned to the deleted tenant.
The following words are reserved and cannot be used as tenant names: admin, cifs, default, fcfs, nfs, scavenging, search, search-api, smb, smtp, snmp, and www.
oOptionally, in the Description field, type a description of the tenant. This text can be up to 1,024 characters long and can contain any valid UTF-8 characters, including white space.
oIn the Management Network field, select the management network for the tenant. The dropdown list of networks does not include empty networks.
The Management Network field is present only if the HCP system is configured to support virtual networking or has the [hcp_management] network enabled.
oIn the Data Network field, select the data access network for the tenant. The dropdown list of networks does not include empty networks.
The Data Network field is present only if the HCP system is configured to support virtual networking.
oIn the Hard Quota field, type the number of gigabytes (GB) or terabytes (TB) of storage to make available to the tenant and select either GB or TB to indicate the measurement unit. Valid values are decimal numbers with up to two places after the period. The minimum is 1 (one) for GB and .01 for TB.
oIn the Soft Quota field, type the percentage point at which you want HCP to notify tenant administrators that free storage space is running low. Valid values are integers in the range 0 (zero) through 100.
oTake one of these actions:
–To specify a namespace quota for the tenant, in the Namespace Quota field, type an integer in the range 1 (one) through the current number of namespaces available for allocation.
The number of available namespaces is displayed below the Namespace Quota field. This number is equal to 10,000 minus the number of namespaces currently allocated to HCP tenants, minus the number of namespaces currently owned by HCP tenants that do not have quotas, minus one for the default namespace, if it exists. If any tenants are above their quotas, the number of excess namespaces is also subtracted from the number of available namespaces.
–To create the tenant without giving it a namespace quota, select No quota.
oIn the Authentication Methods section, select one or more of these authentication methods for the tenant: Local, RADIUS, and Active Directory. If you select RADIUS, you also need to select one or both of these RADIUS authentication methods: Local or Active Directory.
oIn the Initial Security Account section, select Local or Active Directory to specify the type of initial security account that you want to create for the tenant. Then:
–If you selected Local, specify the username and password for the initial HCP user account that you want to create for the tenant:
•In the Username field, type a name for the initial HCP user account for the tenant. Usernames must be from one through 64 characters long, can contain any valid UTF-8 characters, and cannot start with an opening square bracket ([). White space is allowed.
Usernames are not case sensitive.
• In the Password field, type a password for the initial HCP user account. Passwords can be up to 64 characters long, are case sensitive, and can contain any valid UTF-8 characters, including white space. The minimum length for the password for the initial user account is six characters.
To be valid, a password must include at least one character from two of these three groups: alphabetic, numeric, and other.
• In the Confirm Password field, type the password again.
–If you selected Active Directory, in the Group field, specify the name of the AD group account whose credentials you want to use for the initial HCP group account that you want to create for the tenant.
oOptionally, specify contact information for the tenant:
1.Click Contact Information.
2.In the Contact Information panel, fill in the contact information. The table below describes the values that you can specify. Except as indicated, all fields are optional.
Field | Description |
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First Name | First name of the tenant contact. First names can be up to 64 characters long and can contain any valid UTF‑8 characters, including white space. |
Last Name | The last name of the tenant contact. Last names can be up to 64 characters long and can contain any valid UTF‑8 characters, including white space. |
A valid email address for the tenant contact. Email addresses cannot be more than 254 characters long. | |
Confirm Email | A repeat of the email address for the tenant contact. This field is required if you specify an email address in the Email field. |
Phone |
A telephone number for the tenant contact. Do not include a telephone number extension. Instead, put the extension, if any, in the Extension field. Telephone numbers can contain only numbers, parentheses, hyphens (-), periods (.), plus signs (+), and spaces and can be up to 24 characters long (for example, (800) 123-4567). |
Extension | A telephone number extension for the tenant contact. Telephone number extensions can contain only numbers and can be up to five characters long. |
Address Line 1 | The first line of an address for the tenant contact. Address lines can be up to 100 characters long and can contain any valid UTF‑8 characters, including white space. |
Address Line 2 | The second line of an address for the tenant contact. |
City | The city for the tenant contact. City names can be up to 64 characters long and can contain any valid UTF‑8 characters, including white space. |
State/Province | The state or province for the tenant contact. State and province names can be up to 64 characters long and can contain any valid UTF‑8 characters, including white space. |
Postal Code | The postal code for the tenant contact. Postal codes can be up to 64 characters long and can contain only alphanumeric characters and hyphens (-). |
Country | The country for the tenant contact. Country names can be up to 64 characters long and can contain any valid UTF‑8 characters, including white space. |
oOptionally, associate tags with the tenant:
1.Click Tags.
2.For each tag you want to associate with the tenant:
a. In the field in the Tags section, type a text string to be used as a tag. Tags must be from one through 64 characters long, can contain any valid UTF-8 characters except commas (,), and are not case sensitive. White space is allowed.
b. Click Add Tag.
To remove a new tag, click the delete control () for the tag.
oOptionally, select Replication to allow the tenant to be replicated. This option is present only if the HCP system supports replication.
If you select Replication, take one of these actions:
–To have all cloud-optimized namespaces that the tenant owns allow erasure coding, select All cloud-optimized namespaces.
–To allow tenant administrators to choose which cloud-optimized namespaces allow, select Selected namespaces.
oOptionally, select Retention Mode Selection to allow tenant administrators to select the retention mode for the namespaces that the tenant owns.
oOptionally, select Search to allow tenant administrators to enable search for the namespaces that the tenant owns.
oTake one of these actions:
–To allow tenant administrators to associate service plans with the namespaces that the tenant owns, select Service Plan Selection.
–To associate a service plan with the tenant, leave Service Plan Selection unselected. Then either type the name of an existing service plan in the accompanying field or click the arrow control () for the field. If you click the arrow control:
1.In the Service Plans window, select the service plan that you want to assign to the tenant.
2.Click Apply Service Plan.
oOptionally, select Versioning to allow tenant adminstrators to enable versioning for the namespaces that the tenant owns.
4.Click Create Tenant.
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