Creating a Volume for a Tenant

Provides an overview of how to create a volume for a tenant using the CLI.

About this task

To create a volume for a tenant (when you have Multitenancy on File System), do the following:

Procedure

  1. Log in to the cluster as administrator and ensure that the ticket for the tenant has already been generated and copied on to the tenant host.
    If necessary, follow steps in Generating a Ticket for a Tenant to set up the ticket for the tenant.
  2. Create a volume for the tenant by running the following command: 
    $ maprcli volume create -name <volumeName> -path <path_to_volume> -tenantuser <tenant_user>
    NOTE
    For more information, see the maprcli volume create command.