Dell PowerVault 715N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 19)

Disk Quotas
Disk quotas track and control the use of disk space for volumes. You can configure the volumes on your NAS system to do
the following:
Prevent further disk space use and log an event when a user exceeds a specified disk space limit.
Log an event when a user exceeds a specified disk space warning level.
When you enable disk quotas, you can set both the disk quota limit and the disk quota warning level.
The disk quota limit specifies the amount of disk space a user is allocated within a specific volume.
The warning level specifies the point at which the event log displays that a user is nearing the quota limit within a
specific volume.
For example, you can set a user's disk quota limit to 50 MB and the disk quota warning level to 45 MB. With these
settings, the user can store no more than 50 MB on the volume. If the user stores more than 45 MB on the volume, you
can set the disk quota system to log a system event to the event log.
In addition, you can specify a quota limit for the users but allow the users to exceed that quota limit. Enabling quotas and
not limiting disk space use is useful when you want to track disk space use on a per-user basis but do not want to deny
users access to a volume when they exceed that limit. You can also specify whether the system should log an event when
a user exceeds either the quota warning level or the quota limit.
Enabling or Disabling Disk Quotas
To enable or disable quota management on a volume, perform the following steps:
1. Log in to the NAS Manager.
See " Logging in to the NAS Manager ."
2. Click Disks.
3. Click Disk Quota.
4. On the Volumes and Quotas page, click the volume to manage.
5. Click Quota.
6. On the Default Quota for volume page, click the appropriate check box to enable or disable quota management.
7. Select the quota size and settings for this volume.
8. Click OK.
Adding Disk Quota Entries
The Quota Entries page allows you to add, delete, or configure disk quotas for any user of the NAS system.
When you enable disk quotas for an existing volume, volume usage is automatically tracked for new users from that point
on. However, existing volume users have no disk quotas applied to them. You can apply disk quotas to those existing
volume users by adding new quota entries in the Quota Entries window.
To add a new quota entry, perform the following steps:
1. Log in to the NAS Manager.
See " Logging in to the NAS Manager ."
2. Click Disks.
3. Click Disk Quota.