# Data Management — Session 6 of the VAST Customer Education Series (Wed, Sep 16)

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Hi Cosmos community 👋

Session 6 of our **VAST Customer Education Series** is this Wednesday — all about keeping your cluster healthy, fair, and predictable.

**What we’ll cover:**

- Directory, user & group quotas
- Hard vs. soft quotas & accounting
- Tenant quotas & capacity rules
- Quality of Service (QoS) configuration
- Lifecycle policies for S3 & file protocols

📅 **Wednesday, Sep 16 · 11am ET / 8am PT / 16:00 BST**  
Session page & registration: [VAST Live Customer Education Series - VAST Data](https://www.vastdata.com/events/data-management)

📺 **New:** every session in the series now lives in one place. Bookmark the **VAST Customer Webinar Training Series** on YouTube:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/thecosmosai/original/2X/4/4744cbe123b02ce901f9a7d0e337fe2ae2e2c6a6.jpeg "VAST Foundations & Architecture") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqoIjEfYJg&list=PLms0BUHwE7cbCCkmkbI0M_9b8xgU9v5lb)

Prefer to get the whole journey on your calendar at once? Register for all nine sessions — the easiest way to build VAST fluency and prepare for the **VAST Administrator Certification** :

> **[VAST Live Customer Education Series](https://www.vastdata.com/customer-education-series?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_campaign=FY27-Global-ADOP-MUC-Webinar-Customer-Education-Series)**
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> Master VAST Data administration: architecture, networking, access control, data protection, analytics, and troubleshooting across 9 technical sessions.

Next up after this: Data Protection and Namespace on Sep 30. Hope to see you there!