Taking snapshot in nova with image-create fails due to cinder snapshot quota limit exceeded in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
Issue
Taking snapshot in nova with image-create fails due to cinder snapshot quota limit exceeded in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 - it is impossible to take snapshots of volume backed instances.
The following error message shows:
nova image-create --poll instance snapshot
ERROR (ClientException): Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.
<class 'nova.exception.OverQuota'> (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-<UUID>
When grepping for req-<UUID>
in /var/log/nova/nova-api.log
, the following messages indicate that cinder's quota limit was exceeded:
OverQuota: Quota exceeded for resources: snapshots
RESP BODY: {"overLimit": {"message": "VolumeSizeExceedsAvailableQuota: Requested volume or snapshot exceeds allowed gigabytes quota. Requested 10G, quota is 1000G and 1000G has been consumed.", "code": 413, "retryAfter": "0"}}
Environment
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0
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