This section contains Dell Technologies’ overall best-practices recommendations for planning and managing home-directory disk capacity on a PowerScale storage cluster.
- Dell recommends configuring a separate accounting quota for the /ifs/home directory (or wherever home directories are provisioned on the cluster) to monitor overall disk-space usage and issue administrative alerts as necessary to avoid running out of space unexpectedly.
- If an organization’s SLA with respect to home directory data is different than the default general file-services SLA, then the snapshot schedule and snapshot retention settings can be adjusted accordingly to reduce the amount of capacity that snapshot operations will consume on the cluster.