Patent ID: 11900160
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for storage quota enforcement comprising machine executable code which when executed by a cluster peer designated as a tally manager causes the cluster peer to:
distribute to each of a plurality of cluster peers a first quota ticket comprising a first time-to-live (TTL) and a first indication that storage operation execution is quiesced, when a first sum of first actual quota usages obtained from a plurality of storage volumes is greater than or equal to an external quota limit;
distribute to each of the cluster peers a second quota ticket comprising a second indication that storage operation execution is permitted, when a second sum of second actual quota usages obtained from the storage volumes after expiration of the first TTL is less than the external quota limit; and
execute one or more received storage operations after distributing the second quota tickets.