Storage management

Manage storage space

You can access the storage space management via the "Settings -> Manage Quota" option in the sidebar on the left side of the project start page (see figure below). If you want to manage the quota of a subproject, you have to switch to the project page of the respective subproject and call the option from there.

Figure 1 - Project Dashboard with "Settings" option on the left side

Quota Management Tool

The Quota Management Tool will now open (see figure below). In the upper level under the item "Quota Management" you can define the storage quota of the project for a specific resource type in each case. You can select the resource type whose storage quota you want to manage via the "Resource Type" drop-down list at the top right. The common Coscine resource types are available for selection. Not available for selection are, for example, externally managed resources without storage space requirements such as Linked Data. The reserved storage space always refers to one resource type, not to all resource types together.

Example

25 GB reserved memory for the Web resource type does not apply simultaneously to the S3 resource type. The S3 resource type has separate storage space and must be selected (or requested) separately.

Figure 2 - Overview over project quota

Quota allocation to resources

In the lower level under the item "Resources" you can distribute the memory of a resource type reserved under "Quota Management" to your resources already existing in the project. To do this, you can use the sliders on the right side under "Adjust Quota". Note that the reserved memory for a resource type is shared by all resources, which means that your resources must share the memory.

Example

With 150GB of available memory in the project, you cannot reserve 150GB to a resource X and 150GB to a resource Y. Instead, you must make a split such as 50:50 (75GB:75GB).