PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Create an accounting quota

You can create an accounting quota to monitor but not limit disk usage.

1. Click File system > SmartQuotas > Quotas and usage.
2. Click Create a quota.
   The Create a quota dialog box appears.
3. From the Quota type list, select the target for this quota.
   • Directory quota
   • User quota
   • Group quota
4. Depending on the target that you selected, select the entity that you want to apply the quota to. For example, if you selected User quota from the Quota type list, you can target either all users or a specific user.
5. In the Path field, type the path for the quota, or click Browse, and then select a directory.
6. In the Description box, type something relevant about the quota.
   The maximum length for the description field is 1024 bytes.
7. In the Quota accounting area, select the options that you want to use.
   • To include snapshot data in the accounting quota, select Include snapshots in the storage quota.
   • To include the metadata and data protection overhead in the accounting quota, select Physical size.
   • To include the physical size minus the metadata and data protection overhead, select File system logical size.
   • To include capacity consumption on the cluster as well as data tiered to the cloud, select Application logical size. This accounting quota does not measure file system space, but provides the application/user view of the used file capacity.
8. In the Quota limits area, select Track storage without specifying a storage limit.
9. Select how available space should be shown:
   • Size of smallest hard or soft threshold
   • Size of cluster
10. Click Create quota.