topic Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client? in ONTAP Discussions

possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

rctmx — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:42:23 GMT

hello all,

is it possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

want to separate control so clients can manage their own volumes etc and not be at the cluster level.

EDIT: using ontap 9.8

many thanks!

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

FeriApp — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:16:29 GMT

Yes you can, make sure you enable "SVM administrators", it assigned the "vsadmin" role by default. (not admin)

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/concepts/cluster-svm-administrators-concept.html

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

TMACMD — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:28:04 GMT

Having a second Management SVM is not possible. Each ONTAP cluster is allowed (1) ADMIN vserver only. Believe me, I have tried. I made a new IPspace and then tried...ONTAP refuses to let you create any node MGMT LIF except in an ADMIN SVM.

Yes: you can enable and create users for DATA SVMs, but that is not cluster MGMT...only NODE MGMT and even then, I think you are limited to CLI. Not even sure if the GUI will work.

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

TMACMD — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:15:12 GMT

Let me update one of my statements:

ONTAP refuses to let you create any node MGMT LIF or cluster MGMT except in an ADMIN SVM

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

beo — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:38:05 GMT

You can make an SVM Admin with only SVM capability but there is no GUI Access just for a SVM. GUI is only avaible for whole cluster. For Service Provider it is only possible to give a CLI Access for his customers.

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

TMACMD — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:47:39 GMT

And that is ONLY SVM admin. It is not cluster admin. It my eyes the original post was not clear if they wanted a second cluster admin SVM or just to enable admin for a data svm

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

rctmx — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:23:54 GMT

I only wanted to have clients to make changes in their individual SVM, not at the cluster level.

Re: possible to make a management SVM with web gui for client?

rctmx — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:29:41 GMT

thanks, I only wanted to have them be able to access a GUI for the SVM only and not the cluster. ill see if the CLI is capable of making changes they may need to manage themselves.