Limiting a user's server disk space

Users are allocated disk space on a server for their home folder. You can set a disk quota to limit the amount of server disk space a user is allocated.

From the Server tab, you can view server space and resources for your users, and assess what changes you may need to make to your servers and the distribution of users on them. For example, you might want to move users or user accounts to a different server if one server disk is over-subscribed.

Each server will reserve 10% of its disk space in a buffer to minimise the likelihood that the disk will become too full. When a disk becomes full, users will experience difficulties manipulating folders and large files.

To limit a user's server disk space

From the left-hand pane, expand Users and choose All Users.
From the right-hand pane, right-click the user and, from the menu, choose Properties.
Choose the Disk Usage tab.
In the Disk space section:
To allow the user unlimited disk space, clear the 'Limit the server ...' box.
To limit the user's disk space, tick the 'Limit the server...' box. This enables you to specify the size (and units) for:

The user's set disk space.
The level of disk quota used at which the user will receive a warning.

Click OK.

Notes

Users who have permission to do so can oversubscribe the users' disk quotas on a drive. This will not be a problem until most users have used up most of their space. Each drive has a certain amount of reserved space which only an administrator can access.
The level set for a user's warning cannot be equal to, or greater than, the level set for a user's disk space limit.
When you have selected multiple users:

The 'Limit the server...' box is tri-state. Click here for a description of these three states.
The boxes to specify the value states 'varies', and the drop-down list is greyed out.

User properties are also available by selecting the user and choosing in the toolbar, or by double-clicking the user in the right-hand pane.
You can also set this user property on a template.
You can also carry out this task from the RM Management Console Start page. Click the Users icon and, from the list of tasks, select 'Update a user's disk quota'. Use the Item browser to select the user(s) you want to manage.