Manage Compute service quotas

updated: 2019-08-16 16:57

Manage Compute service quotas
- View and update Compute quotas for a tenant (project)
- View and update Compute quotas for a tenant user

Manage Compute service quotas¶

As an administrative user, you can use the nova quota-* commands, which are provided by the python-novaclient package, to update the Compute service quotas for a specific tenant or tenant user, as well as update the quota defaults for a new tenant.

Compute quota descriptions

Quota name	Description
cores	Number of instance cores (VCPUs) allowed per tenant.
fixed-ips	Number of fixed IP addresses allowed per tenant. This number must be equal to or greater than the number of allowed instances.
floating-ips	Number of floating IP addresses allowed per tenant.
injected-file-content-bytes	Number of content bytes allowed per injected file.
injected-file-path-bytes	Length of injected file path.
injected-files	Number of injected files allowed per tenant.
instances	Number of instances allowed per tenant.
key-pairs	Number of key pairs allowed per user.
metadata-items	Number of metadata items allowed per instance.
ram	Megabytes of instance ram allowed per tenant.
security-groups	Number of security groups per tenant.
security-group-rules	Number of rules per security group.

View and update Compute quotas for a tenant (project)¶

To view and update default quota values¶

List all default quotas for all tenants:

$ nova quota-defaults

For example:

$ nova quota-defaults
+-----------------------------+-------+
| Quota                       | Limit |
+-----------------------------+-------+
| instances                   | 10    |
| cores                       | 20    |
| ram                         | 51200 |
| floating_ips                | 10    |
| fixed_ips                   | -1    |
| metadata_items              | 128   |
| injected_files              | 5     |
| injected_file_content_bytes | 10240 |
| injected_file_path_bytes    | 255   |
| key_pairs                   | 100   |
| security_groups             | 10    |
| security_group_rules        | 20    |
+-----------------------------+-------+

Update a default value for a new tenant.

$ nova quota-class-update --KEY VALUE default

For example:

$ nova quota-class-update --instances 15 default

To view quota values for an existing tenant (project)¶

Place the tenant ID in a usable variable.

$ tenant=$(openstack project show -f value -c id TENANT_NAME)

List the currently set quota values for a tenant.

$ nova quota-show --tenant $tenant

For example:

$ nova quota-show --tenant $tenant
+-----------------------------+-------+
| Quota                       | Limit |
+-----------------------------+-------+
| instances                   | 10    |
| cores                       | 20    |
| ram                         | 51200 |
| floating_ips                | 10    |
| fixed_ips                   | -1    |
| metadata_items              | 128   |
| injected_files              | 5     |
| injected_file_content_bytes | 10240 |
| injected_file_path_bytes    | 255   |
| key_pairs                   | 100   |
| security_groups             | 10    |
| security_group_rules        | 20    |
+-----------------------------+-------+

To update quota values for an existing tenant (project)¶

Obtain the tenant ID.

$ tenant=$(openstack project show -f value -c id TENANT_NAME)

Update a particular quota value.

$ nova quota-update --QUOTA_NAME QUOTA_VALUE TENANT_ID

For example:

$ nova quota-update --floating-ips 20 $tenant
$ nova quota-show --tenant $tenant
+-----------------------------+-------+
| Quota                       | Limit |
+-----------------------------+-------+
| instances                   | 10    |
| cores                       | 20    |
| ram                         | 51200 |
| floating_ips                | 20    |
| fixed_ips                   | -1    |
| metadata_items              | 128   |
| injected_files              | 5     |
| injected_file_content_bytes | 10240 |
| injected_file_path_bytes    | 255   |
| key_pairs                   | 100   |
| security_groups             | 10    |
| security_group_rules        | 20    |
+-----------------------------+-------+

Note

To view a list of options for the quota-update command, run:

$ nova help quota-update

View and update Compute quotas for a tenant user¶

To view quota values for a tenant user¶

Place the user ID in a usable variable.

$ tenantUser=$(openstack user show -f value -c id USER_NAME)

Place the user’s tenant ID in a usable variable, as follows:

$ tenant=$(openstack project show -f value -c id TENANT_NAME)

List the currently set quota values for a tenant user.

$ nova quota-show --user $tenantUser --tenant $tenant

For example:

$ nova quota-show --user $tenantUser --tenant $tenant
+-----------------------------+-------+
| Quota                       | Limit |
+-----------------------------+-------+
| instances                   | 10    |
| cores                       | 20    |
| ram                         | 51200 |
| floating_ips                | 20    |
| fixed_ips                   | -1    |
| metadata_items              | 128   |
| injected_files              | 5     |
| injected_file_content_bytes | 10240 |
| injected_file_path_bytes    | 255   |
| key_pairs                   | 100   |
| security_groups             | 10    |
| security_group_rules        | 20    |
+-----------------------------+-------+

To update quota values for a tenant user¶

Place the user ID in a usable variable.

$ tenantUser=$(openstack user show -f value -c id USER_NAME)

Place the user’s tenant ID in a usable variable, as follows:

$ tenant=$(openstack project show -f value -c id TENANT_NAME)

Update a particular quota value, as follows:

$ nova quota-update  --user $tenantUser --QUOTA_NAME QUOTA_VALUE $tenant

For example:

$ nova quota-update --user $tenantUser --floating-ips 12 $tenant
$ nova quota-show --user $tenantUser --tenant $tenant
+-----------------------------+-------+
| Quota                       | Limit |
+-----------------------------+-------+
| instances                   | 10    |
| cores                       | 20    |
| ram                         | 51200 |
| floating_ips                | 12    |
| fixed_ips                   | -1    |
| metadata_items              | 128   |
| injected_files              | 5     |
| injected_file_content_bytes | 10240 |
| injected_file_path_bytes    | 255   |
| key_pairs                   | 100   |
| security_groups             | 10    |
| security_group_rules        | 20    |
+-----------------------------+-------+

Note

To view a list of options for the quota-update command, run:

$ nova help quota-update

To display the current quota usage for a tenant user¶

Use nova absolute-limits to get a list of the current quota values and the current quota usage:

$ nova absolute-limits --tenant TENANT_NAME
+-------------------------+-------+
| Name                    | Value |
+-------------------------+-------+
| maxServerMeta           | 128   |
| maxPersonality          | 5     |
| maxImageMeta            | 128   |
| maxPersonalitySize      | 10240 |
| maxTotalRAMSize         | 51200 |
| maxSecurityGroupRules   | 20    |
| maxTotalKeypairs        | 100   |
| totalRAMUsed            | 0     |
| maxSecurityGroups       | 10    |
| totalFloatingIpsUsed    | 0     |
| totalInstancesUsed      | 0     |
| totalSecurityGroupsUsed | 0     |
| maxTotalFloatingIps     | 10    |
| maxTotalInstances       | 10    |
| totalCoresUsed          | 0     |
| maxTotalCores           | 20    |
+-------------------------+-------+

updated: 2019-08-16 16:57

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