'The provided image is too large' error

Products

• VMware Integrated OpenStack

Issue/Introduction

The default size limit for a snapshot for a VM is set to be one terabyte in Openstack.

Cause

An Instance disk size exceeded one terabyte size limit. 

Resolution

If VM root disk is image add image_size_cap parameter using 'viocli update glance' command.

The size value is specified in bytes.

Example for increasing the size limit to three terabytes shown below

viocli update glance


conf:
  glance:
    DEFAULT:
      image_size_cap: "3298534883328"

Additional Information

Glance API configuration documentation