TPCF apps fail to push with "disk limit is smaller than volume size"

Products

• VMware Tanzu Platform - Cloud Foundry

Issue/Introduction

When using TPCF deploy with NSXT, attempting to push an application, or run an errand that deploys an application, fails with:

2026-04-15T09:58:08.24+0000 [CELL/0] ERR Cell ### failed to create container for instance ###: running image plugin create: making image: creating image: applying disk limits: disk limit is smaller than volume size
   2026-04-15T09:58:08.24+0000 [CELL/0] ERR : exit status 1

This prevents apps from staging.

Environment

TPCF deployed with NSXT

Cause

This is a bug that occurs only when using TPCF with NSXT, and enabling the checkbox EAR -> App Containers ->Enable container network traffic metrics for app instances.

Enabling this checkbox causes garden to set the Disk Limit of the application to 1GB. As this is smaller than the volumeSize created, this leads to the error seen in the logs.

Resolution

This is fixed in garden-runc-release 1.89.0, which is included in the following versions of TPCF:

• TAS/Isolation 6.0.27
• TAS/Isolation 10.2.10
• TAS/Isolation 10.3.7

Please upgrade to one of these versions to resolve this.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/platform/elastic-application-runtime/10-2/eart/runtime-rn.html

As a workaround, please disable the Enable container network traffic metrics for app instances checkbox when using TPCF with NSXT.

Additional Information

A similar issue can be observed when pushing an application using Docker. Please see the below article for more:

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/430737/docker-applications-fail-to-start-with-u.html