diff --git a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md
index 4d3f00af648..a2f4753f06c 100644
--- a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md
+++ b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ parameters:
 * **group** maps all access to this group. Default is `nfsnobody`.
 * **quobyteConfig** use the specified configuration to create the volume. You can create a new configuration or modify an existing one with the Web console or the quobyte CLI. Default is `BASE`
 * **quobyteTenant** use the specified tenant ID to create/delete the volume. This Quobyte tenant has to be already present in Quobyte. For Quobyte < 1.4 use an empty string `""` as `DEFAULT` tenant. Default is `DEFAULT`
+* **createQuota** if set all volumes created by this storage class will get a Quota for the specified size. The quota is set for the logical disk size (which can differ from the physical size e.q. if replication is used). Default is ``False
 
 First create Quobyte admin's Secret in the system namespace. Here the Secret is created in `kube-system`:
 
diff --git a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-storage-class.yaml b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-storage-class.yaml
index 739b94fe916..b9679d61dfb 100644
--- a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-storage-class.yaml
+++ b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-storage-class.yaml
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ parameters:
     group: "root"
     quobyteConfig: "BASE"
     quobyteTenant: "DEFAULT"
+    createQuota: "False"
diff --git a/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go b/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go
index 7cc98138916..5fae74de721 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ func (provisioner *quobyteVolumeProvisioner) Provision() (*v1.PersistentVolume,
 	}
 	provisioner.config = "BASE"
 	provisioner.tenant = "DEFAULT"
+	createQuota := false
 
 	cfg, err := parseAPIConfig(provisioner.plugin, provisioner.options.Parameters)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -382,6 +383,8 @@ func (provisioner *quobyteVolumeProvisioner) Provision() (*v1.PersistentVolume,
 			provisioner.tenant = v
 		case "quobyteconfig":
 			provisioner.config = v
+		case "createquota":
+			createQuota = gostrings.ToLower(v) == "true"
 		case "adminsecretname",
 			"adminsecretnamespace",
 			"quobyteapiserver":
@@ -402,7 +405,7 @@ func (provisioner *quobyteVolumeProvisioner) Provision() (*v1.PersistentVolume,
 		config: cfg,
 	}
 
-	vol, sizeGB, err := manager.createVolume(provisioner)
+	vol, sizeGB, err := manager.createVolume(provisioner, createQuota)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte_util.go b/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte_util.go
index e094133bf48..2b5db49fa23 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte_util.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte_util.go
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ type quobyteVolumeManager struct {
 	config *quobyteAPIConfig
 }
 
-func (manager *quobyteVolumeManager) createVolume(provisioner *quobyteVolumeProvisioner) (quobyte *v1.QuobyteVolumeSource, size int, err error) {
+func (manager *quobyteVolumeManager) createVolume(provisioner *quobyteVolumeProvisioner, createQuota bool) (quobyte *v1.QuobyteVolumeSource, size int, err error) {
 	capacity := provisioner.options.PVC.Spec.Resources.Requests[v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceStorage)]
 	volumeSize := int(volume.RoundUpSize(capacity.Value(), 1024*1024*1024))
 	// Quobyte has the concept of Volumes which doen't have a specific size (they can grow unlimited)
@@ -51,10 +51,12 @@ func (manager *quobyteVolumeManager) createVolume(provisioner *quobyteVolumeProv
 		return &v1.QuobyteVolumeSource{}, volumeSize, err
 	}
 
-	// Set Quoate for Volume with specified byte size
-	err = quobyteClient.SetVolumeQuota(volumeUUID, capacity.Value())
-	if err != nil {
-		return &v1.QuobyteVolumeSource{}, volumeSize, err
+	// Set Quota for Volume with specified byte size
+	if createQuota {
+		err = quobyteClient.SetVolumeQuota(volumeUUID, uint64(capacity.Value()))
+		if err != nil {
+			return &v1.QuobyteVolumeSource{}, volumeSize, err
+		}
 	}
 
 	glog.V(4).Infof("Created Quobyte volume %s", provisioner.volume)