1. A method comprising: causing, by a processing device, a plurality of storage servers to create tenant identifiers for a tenant of a multi-tenant distributed file system that is distributed over the plurality of storage servers, the plurality of storage servers having underlying local file systems that interface with the multi-tenant distributed file system; mapping, by the processing device, the tenant to the tenant identifiers; assigning, by the processing device, a global storage quota to the tenant; dividing, by the processing device, the global storage quota into a plurality of local storage quotas; and assigning a local storage quota of the plurality of local storage quotas to each storage server of the plurality of storage servers.