ECS: Setting Bucket Soft and Hard Quota

Bucket Quota:

A quota is a limit that defines the maximum size that a certain resource (buckets or namespaces) can have. Admin users set this limit. It is set in GiBs with a minimum of 1 GB.

Two types of Quota exist: Soft Quota and Hard Quota; they only differ in the action taken when the quota is breached.

• Hard quota: Once the limit is breached, no more writes or appends are allowed on the corresponding resource; the only action allowed is objects or buckets deletion
• Soft quota: Only an alert is raised.

To set a quota on a bucket:

1. Create a management user and provide its name and password.

Go to Manage > Management Users > New Management User.

2. Create a namespace:

Go to Manage > Namespace > New namespace.

3. Create a bucket:

Go to Manage > Buckets > New Bucket.
 

4. Set the quota on the bucket, at creation level, using one of the below options:

• Notification Only at <quota_limit_in_GiB> Soft quota setting at which you are notified.
• Block Access Only at <quota_limit_in_GiB> Hard quota setting which, when reached, prevents write or update access to the bucket.
• Block Access at <quota_limit_in_GiB> and Send Notification at <quota_limit_in_GiB> Hard quota setting which, when reached, prevents write or update access to the bucket and the quota setting at which you are notified.

Bucket showing quota:

See article: ECS: Bucket Management - Overview and Troubleshooting