Quota monitoring

Quotas are allocated by project. They can be monitored via the command:

% nova quota-show
+-----------------------------+--------+
| Quota                       | Limit  |
+-----------------------------+--------+
| instances                   | 300    |
| cores                       | 400    |
| ram                         | 600000 |
| floating_ips                | 100    |
| fixed_ips                   | -1     |
| metadata_items              | 1000   |
| injected_files              | 1000   |
| injected_file_content_bytes | 10000  |
| injected_file_path_bytes    | 255    |
| key_pairs                   | 100    |
| security_groups             | 50     |
| security_group_rules        | 20     |
+-----------------------------+--------+

  • instances : number of virtual machines

  • cores : total number of cores

  • ram : total memory

  • floating-ips : number of public floating IPs (NAT)

  • fixed-ips : number of static IPs

  • metadata-items : number of metadata assignable to VMs (option –meta of nova boot command)

  • injected-files : number of files injected in the VM through the option –file

  • key-pairs : total number of SSH keys

  • security-groups : number of security groups

  • security-group-rules : total number of security group rules

To obtain a change in quotas, please contact our user support.