Dell NX3610, NX3500, NX3600 manual Adding a Quota Rule for Each User in a Specific Group

Models: NX3500 NX3600 NX3610

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15.To enable a hard quota limit, select the Hard Quota check box and type a hard quota limit in megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB) at which no more writing to the NAS volume is permitted.

16.Click OK.

Adding a Quota Rule for Each User in a Specific Group

Configure the quota applied to each user that belongs to a group.

1.Click the NAS Volumes tab on the left.

2.Click the All NAS Volumes tab on the top.

3.In the All NAS Volumes pane, click in the row of the volume whose quotas you want to modify.

4.Click View Details.

5.Click the Quota tab on the top.

6.In the Groups Quotas pane, click .

7.Click New Rule.

The New Rule for Group Quota dialog box appears

8.Click the […] button to the right of the Rule for group field. The Group Browser dialog box appears.

9.From the Domain dropdown menu, select the group’s domain.

10.In the Starts with field, type either the full name of the group or the beginning of the group name.

11.Click Display.

12.Select a group from the search results.

13.Click OK.

14.Select Any user in group.

15.To enable a soft quota limit, select the Soft Quota check box and type a soft quota limit in megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB) at which an alert is issued.

16.To enable a hard quota limit, select the Hard Quota check box and type a hard quota limit in megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB) at which no more writing to the NAS volume is permitted.

17.Click OK.

Adding a Quota Rule for an Entire Group

Configure the quota applied to all users in a group collectively.

1.Click the NAS Volumes tab on the left.

2.Click the All NAS Volumes tab on the top.

3.In the All NAS Volumes pane, click in the row of the volume whose quotas you want to modify.

4.Click View Details.

5.Click the Quota tab on the top.

6.In the Groups Quotas pane, click .

7.Click New Rule.

The New Rule for Group Quota dialog box appears

8.Click the […] button to the right of the Rule for group field. The Group Browser dialog box appears.

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Dell NX3610, NX3500, NX3600 Adding a Quota Rule for Each User in a Specific Group, Adding a Quota Rule for an Entire Group

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