[ovirt-users] Cannot set a quota to limit resources for each user

[Soumya Koduri]

Hi Artyom,

On 08/03/2017 04:07 PM, Artyom Lukianov wrote:
> Hi Soumya,
> 
>  1. Yes, you correct a quota is shared among all quota consumers.
>  2. No, it not possible, the single possibility as you said is to create
>     a separate quota for each user. I believe it was designed to make
>     quota for group of users at first place, but I think it can be a
>     good RFE :)

Thanks for confirming. I shall file a RFE then.

Regards,
Soumya

> 
> Best Regards
> 
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Soumya Koduri <skoduri at redhat.com 
> <mailto:skoduri at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     We have a use-case to limit VM resources for each user and were
>     following guidelines specified in the admin guide to set quota and
>     limit resources for each user [section:  16.8. Using Quota to Limit
>     Resources by User]. However looks like that quota is shared by all
>     the users added as consumers.
> 
>     Suppose I have created a quota (say quota1) to limit the storage
>     capacity to 100GB for each user. Once I add user1 and user2 as
>     consumers to that quota, seems like both users combined are entitled
>     to 100GB. Is my understanding correct?
> 
>     Please let me know if there is any way to configure a single quota
>     which could be applied for each user individually (i.e, in the above
>     eg., each user should be limited to 100GB storage capacity).
> 
>     Or is the only way this can be done is by creating separate quota
>     for each user [which seems like tedious process and cannot scale]?
> 
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Soumya
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