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.