Coping with the Site Collection Storage Limits - Recommendations

Think of a case when your client comes to you and says I had a dream last night and in that dream I saw my site collection was running out of space and everyday I had an email in my outlook waiting for me to say this. OK enough dream. Come back to reality. Now if you've a client who says this and you don't know the answer of it then perhaps here's some guidelines which can help you to cope with the site collection storage related issues.

I'm just the messenger in this and summarising what Microsoft suggests in the documentation. You can read the documentation if you need more elaboration.

Note: I presume your site collection is based on a quota.


1- Create a new quota(don't change the existing one) with increased space and reassign to    a site collection. This won't impact the existing site collections storage. Use the following powershell command.
     Set-SPSite -Identity "" -QuotaTemplate "

2- Modify the existing site collection quota limits. But this will assign more storage to existing site collections as well.

3- Modify the limits on the site collections manually. Use the following powershell command.
    Set-SPSite -Identity "" -MaxSize

4-And here's the last but not least if you cannot do any of the above then create another site collection  and bear the pain of content types, site columns, features and other global objects replication/migration.


Here's the Microsoft documentation on this. Also there are separate links for Enterprise Content Management Planning and SQL capacity planning for the content databases(worth reading) with in this.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263480.aspx

Hope this helps !

Majid