Patent ID: 9678962
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for a storage cluster including a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes having a processor and a storage device storing a program executed by the processor, the method comprising: providing a plurality of tenants in the storage cluster, the storage cluster having storage space that is logically partitioned to a plurality of namespaces, wherein one of the tenants has an administrative account that enables users to manage configuration of the one of the tenants and two or more namespaces under the one of the tenants and does not enable the users to manage configuration of another tenant; and managing the two or more namespaces under the one of the tenants, each of the two or more namespaces including one or more objects, wherein one of the namespaces has a data access account that enables applications to access objects in the one of the namespaces and does not enable applications to access objects in another namespace.