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# Roles for performing local and remote replication actions

Users gain access to a storage system or component either directly through a role assignment and/or indirectly through membership in a user group that has a role assignment.

The table below details the roles required to perform local and remote replication actions.

| Local Replication | Remote Replication | Device Manager
--- | --- | --- | ---
Protection Wizard - Create SnapVx Snapshot | Yes (a) |  |
Create Snapshot | Yes (a) |  |
Edit Snapshot | Yes |  |
Link Snapshot | Yes (b) (c) |  | Yes (d)
Relink Snapshot | Yes (b) (c) |  | Yes (d)
Restore Snapshot | Yes (b) |  | Yes (b)
Set Time To Live | Yes |  |
Set Mode | Yes (b) |  | Yes (d)
Terminate Snapshot | Yes |  |
Unlink Snapshot | Yes (b) |  | Yes (d)
SRDF Delete |  | Yes |
SRDF Establish |  | Yes |
SRDF Failback |  | Yes |
SRDF Failover |  | Yes |
SRDF Invalidate |  | Yes |
SRDF Move |  | Yes |
SRDF Not Ready |  | Yes |
SRDF R1 Update |  | Yes |
SRDF Ready |  | Yes |
SRDF Refresh |  | Yes |
SRDF Restore |  | Yes |
SRDF Resume |  | Yes |
SRDF RW Disable R2 |  | Yes |
SRDF RW Enable |  | Yes |
SRDF Set Bias |  | Yes |
SRDF Set Consistency |  | Yes |
SRDF Set Mode |  | Yes |
SRDF Set SRDF/A |  | Yes |
SRDF Split |  | Yes |
SRDF Suspend |  | Yes |
SRDF Swap |  | Yes |
SRDF Write Disable |  | Yes |

(a) - Set Secure is blocked for users who only have Local_REP rights.

(b) - The user must have the specified rights on the source volumes.

(c) - The user may only choose existing storage groups to link to. Creating a storage group requires Storage Admin rights.

(d) - The user must have the specified rights on the link volumes.