Discrepancy in used space between Citrix host and ONTAP quota report
Applies to
ONTAP 9
Issue
- Quota Report shows lower utilization compared to Customer's reporting Application Citrix:
- Citrix report:
| TreeSize Professional Report | |||||||
| Drive:share1$ (\\vol1) | |||||||
| Drive: \\vol1\share1$\ Size: 1,000.4 GB Used: 906.9 GB Free: 93.5 GB 4096 Bytes per Cluster (NTFS) | |||||||
| Full Path | Size | Allocated | Files | Folders | % of Parent | Last Change | Last Access |
\\vol1\share1$\user1\ |
12.9 GB | 13.1 GB | 107241 | 6420 | 1.5% | 27/6/2025 | 27/6/2025 |
- ONTAP Quota report:
Cluster::> volume quota report -volume vol1Vserver: svm1 ----Disk---- ----Files----- QuotaVolume Tree Type ID Used Limit Used Limit Specifier------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ----- ------ ------ ---------vol1 user BUILTIN\Administrators 750.9GB - 6215420 -vol1 user group\user1 680.3MB 10GB 835 - *- Verified the files and directories under the user1 directories:
cd c:/
dir /q \\vol1\share1$\user1\ > file1.txt
- On verifying the file1.txt we see multiple files owned by
BUILTIN\Administratorslisted uner the directory for user1.
