Manage Compute service quotas

View and update Compute quotas for a tenant (project)
View and update Compute quotas for a tenant user

As an administrative user, you can use the nova quota-* commands, which are provided by the python-novaclient package, to update the Compute Service quotas for a specific tenant or tenant user, as well as update the quota defaults for a new tenant.

Table 2.17. Compute Quota Descriptions
Quota Name	Description
`cores`	Number of instance cores (VCPUs) allowed per tenant.
`fixed-ips`	Number of fixed IP addresses allowed per tenant. This number must be equal to or greater than the number of allowed instances.
`floating-ips`	Number of floating IP addresses allowed per tenant.
`injected-file-content-bytes`	Number of content bytes allowed per injected file.
`injected-file-path-bytes`	Number of bytes allowed per injected file path.
`injected-files`	Number of injected files allowed per tenant.
`instances`	Number of instances allowed per tenant.
`key-pairs`	Number of key pairs allowed per user.
`metadata-items`	Number of metadata items allowed per instance.
`ram`	Megabytes of instance ram allowed per tenant.
`security-groups`	Number of security groups per tenant.
`security-group-rules`	Number of rules per security group.

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