Friday, July 29, 2016

Clustered Data Ontap 8.x Quota Management

Clustered Data Ontap 8.x Quota Management:


About quotas

Quotas provide a way to restrict or track the disk space and number of files used by a user, group, or qtree. 

You can use quotas to limit resource usage, to provide notification when resource usage reaches specific levels, or to track resource usage.
You specify a quota for the following reasons:
  • To limit the amount of disk space or the number of files that can be used by a user or group, or that can be contained by a qtree
  • To track the amount of disk space or the number of files used by a user, group, or qtree, without imposing a limit
  • To warn users when their disk usage or file usage is high

1. Check the qtrees.


2. Create a qtrees.


3. Create a new quota policy.


4. Write a quota rule to the policy.


5. Modify the policy information to the vserver.


6. Now enabling the quota on volume.



7. Mount the qtree from the linux server through NFS, now you can see the amount which you specify in the quota rule.




8. Modify the quota rules.


9. Resize the quota rules to the volume.


10. Now check from the Linux server, you can see the limit.



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