Solution 1 - Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual

• Quotas—Quotas are also defined per NAS volume. Different quota
policies can be applied to different NAS volumes, allowing the
administrator to focus on managing quotas when it is appropriate.
Some of the usage examples are copy operations, list operations, and move
operations. Table 6-2 provides an example of an organization that has various
departments and how NAS volumes can be created. The right solution
depends on the customer's requirements because NAS volumes are flexible
and they can be expanded and reduced on demand.
Table 6-2. NAS Volume Example
Department Preferred
Access
Management
Control
Post NFS
Production
Administration CIFS
and Finance
Broadcast Mixed
Press CIFS
Marketing CIFS

Solution 1

Create five NAS volumes based on the departments. The administrator
logically breaks up the storage and the management into functional groups.
In this scenario, the departmental requirements are quite different and
supports the design to logically create NAS volumes along department lines.
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Using Volumes, Shares, and Quotas
Snapshots Replication Backup
Hourly No
No No
No No
Daily No
Daily Yes
CIFS or NFS
Clients and
R/W Mix
(Common is
80/20)
Weekly 20–20/80
Weekly 10–50/50
Weekly 10–90/10
No 5–10/90
No 5–50/50
Hourly Change %
of Existing Data
(1% And Above is
High)
1%
None
None
5%
(approximately)
None