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Hi,
I have a scenario that I need to control the quota usage. Let said I have four departments, each department is entitled to have 20GB of quota. Can I delegate the sub-folder quota to each department administrator?
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September 30th, 2015 09:00
Assuming you're using tree quotas, this will only work if the trees are not nested.
For example, you could have a filesystem called /dept_share, with separate trees at the root, i.e., /dept_share/DEPT_A, /dept_share/DEPT_B, /dept_share/DEPT_C, and /dept_share/DEPT_D, each with a 20GB quota.
Nested tree quotas are not supported, as indicated in the Using Quotas on VNX documentation.
If each tree quota is on the same CIFS server, you could setup multiple users to be administrators of all trees, but not just a specific tree. We just tested this a moment ago on our test VNX. We had to add the administrative accounts to the Administrators group on the CIFS server, then the accounts could manage quotas. However, any member of the Administrators group could manage any quota, even when we put them in different groups and modified NTFS permissions. In one case, even with a specific Deny ACE in the filesystem, the admin account could still modify quotas on any tree.
If you're trying to achieve this in a multi-tenant setup, your best bet would be to move each share to a different CIFS server (so that each has its own Administrators group).
Let us know if that helps!
Karl