Partitioning management of system resources across multiple users

A system for partitioning management of a plurality of storage resources in a computing storage environment across multiple users, wherein the multiple users includes an existing administrator and an existing non-administrator, the system comprising:

• at least one processor device;
• and
• a storage controller operational in the computing storage environment, wherein the storage controller includes the at least one processor device and is adapted for:
• assigning to an existing non-administrator a default user resource scope that is more limited than a user resource scope assigned to an existing administrator;
• associating existing storage resources with a default resource group;
• creating resource group objects for each new resource group;
• setting attributes in the resource group objects to define policies for storage resources to be associated with a corresponding new resource group;
• reassigning the existing non-administrator from the default user resource scope to a new user resource scope;
• reassigning the existing storage resources from the default resource group to the new resource group;
• and
• applying the policies and access scopes allowing the existing non-administrator to create new storage resources within a scope of the corresponding new user resource scope.

A computer program product for partitioning management of a plurality of storage resources in a computing storage environment across a plurality of users by a processor device, wherein the plurality of users includes an existing administrator and an existing non-administrator, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer program product comprising:

• computer code for assigning the existing non-administrator a default user resource scope that is more limited than a user resource scope assigned to the existing administrator;
• computer code for associating existing storage resources with a default resource group;
• computer code for creating resource group objects for each new resource group;
• computer code for setting attributes in the resource group objects to define policies for storage resources to be associated with a corresponding new resource group;
• computer code for reassigning the existing non-administrator from the default user resource scope to a new user resource scope;
• computer code for reassigning the existing storage resources from the default resource group to the new resource group;
• and
• applying the policies and access scopes allowing the existing non-administrator to create new storage resources within a scope of the corresponding new user resource scope.