Instance Creation Failure Within Server Group: "Quota exceeded, too many servers in group

Problem

  • Unable to create servers within a server group.

  • The following error is observed.

HttpException: 403: Client Error for url: https://[cloud_url]/nova/v2.1/[project_id]/servers, Quota exceeded, too many servers in group

Environment

  • Platform9 Managed OpenStack - v3.6.0 and Higher

Cause

The request exceeds the server group member quota.

Resolution

1. Confirm the current server group member quota.

# openstack quota show [project_uuid]+----------------------+----------------------------------+| Field | Value |+----------------------+----------------------------------+{truncated}| server-group-members | 10 || server-groups | 10 |

2. Increase the quota for the appropriate tenant.

# openstack quota set --server-group-members [value] [project_id]


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