Administrator Guide

3. In the Quotas panel, select defuser and click Modify. The Modify Quota dialog box opens.
4. In the dialog box, specify the following conguration settings:
• Quota size and units (MB, GB, or TB)
• In-use space warning limit, as a percentage of the quota size
5. Click OK.
Delete a NAS Container Quota
You cannot delete the default group quota or the default user quota. To disable a default quota, set the quota size and the warning
limit to zero.
To delete a NAS container quota:
1. Click NAS, expand NAS Clusters and Local Containers, and then select the NAS container name.
2. Click the Quota tab.
3. In the Quotas panel, select the quota target and click Delete.
4. Conrm that you want to delete the quota.
About Quota Directories
A quota directory is a directory that accounts for the size of les and directories under it by enforcing limits on them.
A quota directory provides a more granular approach for controlling space usage by a specic directory within a NAS container. You
can mark a directory as a quota directory to limit the total amount of space that the directory uses within the NAS container. Quota
directories work with user and group quotas, along with any capacity restrictions applied to the NAS container itself.
Conguring Quota Directories
NOTE:
• You can create multiple quota directories, but nesting quota directories is not supported.
• Quota rules can be set on empty directories only. After you set a rule, it can be edited or deleted. If you delete the
quota rule, the directory reverts back to normal directory behavior.
You congure quota directories in the Group Manager CLI using the following commands (quota directories cannot be congured in
the Group Manager GUI):
• nas-cluster select cluster_name container select container_name quota-dir create directory_name soft_limit hard_limit
NOTE: You must specify the maximum size for a particular directory with the hard_limit variable. Optionally, you can
use the soft_limit variable to specify a size that is less than the hard-limit size.
• nas-cluster select cluster_name container select container_name quota-dir show
• nas-cluster select cluster_name container select container_name quota-dir modify
• nas-cluster select cluster_name container select container_name quota-dir delete
The create command sets the quota rule for a directory.
See the Dell EqualLogic Group Manager CLI Reference Guide for more information about these commands.
Quotas and NAS Containers
Administrators use dierent quota mechanisms to regulate and monitor space usage within the NAS containers, such as user quotas,
group quotas, and quota directories.
User quotas are applied dierently, depending on whether the promoted replica container uses external authentication, local
authentication, or a combination of the two.
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