[ovirt-users] Mechanism to make VM creation fail if the cluster has insufficient resources to run it

[Yaniv Dary]

You can always overcommit, so hard to tell when no resources are left.
You can use quote to limit to physical resources.

Yaniv Dary
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:52 PM, David Jorm <djorm at iix.net> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> My team is currently building an application based on the oVirt REST
> API, and we noticed that it is possible to create a VM with resources
> (i.e. RAM or CPU) that are not physically available in the cluster.
> Running the VM will fail with an appropriate error message, but for
> our use case it would be highly desirable that the VM creation fails.
> I haven't found any setting that enables this behavior, but I was
> wondering if one is hidden somewhere or there is a simple workaround
> to make VM creation fail if resources are not available to run it.
>
> Thanks
> David
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