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title: "About this Tenant Admin Guide"
slug: "about-this-tenant-admin-guide-tg"
tags: ["5.5"]
updated: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
published: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/about-this-tenant-admin-guide-tg"
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# About this Tenant Admin Guide

This guide describes the administration of a single tenant on a VAST cluster. It describes the tenant administration features that can be accessed at the tenant-specific VAST Web UI by cluster managers with type *Tenant Admin*.

A *tenant admin* user is a manager user that may be provisioned by a *cluster admin* user or another *tenant admin* user.

Depending on RBAC permissions, a *tenant admin* user may be able to perform these activities on a specific tenant of a VAST Cluster:

- Create and manage client users and groups for the tenant.
- Create and manage tenant identity policies and S3 keys, and associate them with tenant client users and groups.
- Create additional tenant admin users for the tenant.
- Create and manage buckets. Tenant administrators can create S3 buckets and view buckets created on the tenant by client users.
- Create and manage views that share buckets, and regulate access with view policies, quotas, and lifecycle rules.
- Create and manage VAST Databases.
- Enable and manage VAST DataEngine and VAST DataEngine *application users*.
- Configure data protection and global access features on paths in the tenant's namespace.
- View analytics information for the tenant, including data flows, metrics, and capacity statistics.

For information about administrating VAST Cluster as a *cluster admin* user, including managing multiple tenants, see the *VAST Cluster 5.5 Administrator's Guide*.