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PowerScale SmartQuotas enables administrators to understand, predict, control, and limit storage usage across their organization and provision a cluster to best meet their storage needs.
SmartQuotas also facilitates thin provisioning, or the ability to present more storage capacity to applications and users than is physically present (overprovisioning). Thin provisioning allows customers to buy and provision storage as they grow rather than having to make large, speculative purchasing decisions ahead of time.
This paper explores how SmartQuotas can be configured by organizations to establish storage usage quotas and how these quotas can be enforced. The document also illustrates the reporting and notification options available to simplify the management of scale-out NAS environments and data lakes.