Setting Quota Options

This page lets you establish user storage quotas. Until quota management is established, users have unlimited storage disk space for their home folders.

Quota management on NAS devices needs to be managed by the NAS vendor software.

This page is also where you establish quota management settings for quota managers. A quota manager is a specified user or group who is granted the ability to increase a user’s quota, without having rights to the file system. Quota management actions are performed through Quota Manager, which is a separate web browser-based management interface. For more information on Quota Manager, see Using Quota Manager.

  1. In the left pane, click Quota Options.
    The following page appears:
  2. Select the Enabled check box to enable an initial storage quota for users to whom this policy will apply.
    Leaving this check box deselected gives users unlimited user home folder storage.
  3. In the MB field, specify the initial storage quota for the user home folders.
  4. Set up quota managers and enable the Quota Manager web interface for this policy by filling in the following fields:

    5. Enable Quota Manager / Quota Preservation for this policy: Select this check box to enable the Quota Management region of the page and to allow the Quota Manager web interface to apply to this policy.

    Quota preservation preserves the home folder quota settings for users that are moved. For example, if a user is moved from the Sales organizational unit to the Marketing organizational unit, if the user’s quota allocation for the policy that applies to Sales were higher than the quota allocation for the policy that applies to Marketing, the quota allocations from the policy associated with the Sales policy are preserved for the user.

    Quota Maximum: Indicate whether the user home folders associated with this policy will have a maximum quota setting. If so, indicate the maximum quota.

    Quota Increment: Indicate whether quota managers will set the quota manually or in set increments. If you use manual increments, the quota manager can increase the quota in any increment until it meets the maximum quota setting. If you establish set increments, the quota manager can only increase the quota by the increment setting.

    Quota Managers: Click Add and use the Directory Services Browser to browse to and select a user or group you want to serve as a quota manager by dragging the User or Group object over to the right pane. Repeat this for each user or group you want to establish as a quota manager.

    If you do not specify a user or group as a quota manager, only members of the File Dynamics Admins group will be able to use the Quota Manager web interface.

  5. Click Apply to save your settings.
  6. Proceed with Setting the Move Schedule.