An administrator is developing a storage growth plan for a new file server. Which of the following should be implemented on the server so that storage growth is restricted?

Disk quotas, configured through tools such as File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) on Windows Server, allow administrators to set hard limits that block write operations once a user or folder reaches the defined threshold. This directly restricts how much storage any individual or directory can consume, giving the administrator enforceable control over storage growth rather than simply observing it after the fact.

Disk compression reduces the physical space consumed by existing files but imposes no cap on how much new data users can write, so total storage consumption can continue to grow without restriction.

Automatic usage reports are a monitoring and reporting tool that surfaces consumption trends but take no enforcement action, meaning storage can continue to grow unchecked even when reports are generated.

Automatic defragmentation reorganizes fragmented file data on disk to improve I/O performance but has no effect on the total amount of storage that is used or permitted to be used.