Overview of Views & View Policies in the VAST Management System

This video from VAST Data Customer Education provides a foundational overview of Views and View Policies, two fundamental concepts within the VAST Management System (VMS). For storage administrators, understanding these elements is key to presenting data to users and enforcing access control on a VAST cluster. A View is VAST’s generic term for a shared data resource, equivalent to what you might find as an NFS export, an SMB share, or an S3 bucket on other systems. It defines the specific dataset you are making available and the protocols through which it is accessible. A View Policy, on the other hand, governs the rules of that access. It controls the “how,” including the permissioning methods and the overall behavior of the view, ensuring that data is shared according to your established security and operational rules. This video serves as a high-level introduction to these two critical components, providing a conceptual framework for more detailed configuration and management tutorials in the VAST Data Customer Education series.