In the Server perspective of the Management Server console, the primary object for assigning roles and permissions is the host. Permissions can be assigned to the perspective, to Organizations of hosts, or to individual hosts.

The Server perspective includes separate views for CVM clusters. If your user group has at least Guest role assigned on at least one of the hosts in the cluster, you can view the information for the cluster and the hosts in it. The permission on the host may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization. You can also view the information if your user group has at least Guest role assigned on the Server perspective.

You can perform operations by right-clicking CVM cluster objects (for example, disks and volumes) in the context of the cluster view, as well as from a host context.

To perform most Storage Foundation operations from the cluster context requires Admin rights to the host that is the master node of the selected CVM cluster. The permission on the host may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization. The affected operations include disk group, disk, volume, and file system operations.