As an administrative user, you can update the OpenStack Block Storage service quotas for a project. You can also update the quota defaults for a new project.

Block Storage quotas

Property name	Defines the number of
gigabytes	Volume gigabytes allowed for each tenant.
snapshots	Volume snapshots allowed for each tenant.
volumes	Volumes allowed for each tenant.

As an administrative user, you can view and update Block Storage service quotas. List the default quotas for all projects, as follows: $ cinder quota-defaults +-----------+-------+ | Property | Value | +-----------+-------+ | gigabytes | 1000 | | snapshots | 10 | | volumes | 10 | +-----------+-------+ To update a default value for a new project, update the property in the /etc/cinder/cinder.conf file. View Block Storage service quotas for a project, as follows: $ cinder quota-show TENANT_NAME For example: $ cinder quota-show tenant01 +-----------+-------+ | Property | Value | +-----------+-------+ | gigabytes | 1000 | | snapshots | 10 | | volumes | 10 | +-----------+-------+ To update Block Storage service quotas, place the tenant ID in a usable variable, as follows: $ tenant=$(keystone tenant-list | awk '/tenantName/ {print $2}') Update a particular quota value, as follows: $ cinder quota-update --quotaName NewValue tenantID For example: $ cinder quota-update --volumes 15 $tenant $ cinder quota-show tenant01 +-----------+-------+ | Property | Value | +-----------+-------+ | gigabytes | 1000 | | snapshots | 10 | | volumes | 15 | +-----------+-------+