Edit Individual Users Quotas

Problem

Similar to tenant quotas, you can enforce quotas per user. This can be used to prevent users from monopolizing resources in a multi-user tenant.

Environment

  • Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All Versions

  • Nova

  • OpenStack CLI

  • Nova CLI

Procedure

Using the Clarity UI

  1. Log in using your admin account.

  2. Select the 'Tenants and Users' tab on the menu to the left of the page.

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  1. Switch to the 'Users' tab and use the radio button to select the user whose quotas you want to set and click on 'Edit User'.

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  1. Set the desired quotas for the user. Ensure that the 'Enable user-level quota for the playground region and [tenant_name] tenant.' checkbox is selected.

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  1. Click on 'Save'.

Using the CLI

  1. Source your admin RC file.

$ source [your_admin_rc_file].rc

  1. Get the UUID of the user whose quotas you want to admin.

$ openstack user list | grep [username]

  1. Get the UUID of the project the user belongs to.

$ openstack project list | grep [project_name]

  1. Check the existing quotas for the user.

$ nova quota-show --user --tenant $project

  1. Update the quota for the user.

$ nova quota-update --user [user_uuid] --QUOTA_NAME QUOTA_VALUE [project_uuid]

  1. Repeat Step #4 to verify the quotas have been updated successfully.

Additional Information


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