Quotas reference

The resource dimensions a tenant quota controls, their units, and the rules that govern them.

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How quotas work

  • Quotas are set per tenant (child account), separately for compute (per compute pool) and storage (per storage pool).
  • A value of 0 or unset means unlimited for that dimension.
  • For each dimension, the Max must be greater than or equal to the Guarantee.
  • A tenant can only be delegated up to the capacity remaining in its parent.
  • PAYG (pay-as-you-go) marks a dimension as billed on usage rather than a fixed allocation.

Compute quota dimensions

DimensionLabel in the UIUnit
CPU guaranteedPhysical Guaranteed (GHz)GHz
CPU burstable limitPhysical Burstable Limit (GHz)GHz
Memory guaranteedPhysical Guaranteed (GB)GB
Memory power-on limitPower On Limit (GB)GB
Memory burst limitPhysical Burstable Limit (GB)GB
vCPU limitPower On Limit (vCPUs)vCPUs
Pay-as-you-goPAYGon / off

Storage quota dimensions

DimensionUnit
Storage guaranteedGB
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG)on / off

Usage & headroom

The Quotas overview shows live consumption against each allocation.

  • Used vCPU and used RAM (GB) are summed from the tenant’s running VMs.
  • For each dimension the overview reports the max, current pool usage, amount used, amount remaining, and percentage used.
  • Headroom bars turn from healthy to warning as usage approaches the limit.

Numeric field limits (e.g. whole-number GB, vCPU ≥ 1, RAM ≥ 512 MB) are covered in the Limits & validation reference (click here).

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