[SOLVED] Unable to retrieve next free vmid: 500 Internal Server Error: unable to get any free VMID in range [999991, 1000000]

[fadeway]

Hi,

I have an ansible job which deploys 4 VMs. Each deploy starts by getting the next available vmid from the API. After getting one or two vmids, the API refuses to provide any more with the message "Unable to retrieve next free vmid: 500 Internal Server Error: unable to get any free VMID in range [999991, 1000000]".

How can I change this range? It makes no sense to me that proxmox is defaulting to such a narrow range of IDs.

Details:

When I manually test the API on my proxmox host I get a very high vmid:

curl -s -k -H 'Authorization: PVEAPIToken=root@pam!ci_cd=horsebatterystaple' 'https://proxmox.example.org:8006/api2/json/cluster/nextid'
{"data":"999999"}

This host has only ~10 VMs on it. For example here is the storage we always use:

ll /mnt/pve/nac1.svm_pve_eimfstest_ssd/images/
total 48K
drwxr-xr-x 12 nobody nogroup 4.0K Nov  4 08:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 nobody nogroup 4.0K Sep 12 11:18 ../
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Sep 17 09:16 122011/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 23 08:48 122401/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 21 11:58 300/
drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 23 08:41 301/
drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Nov  1 12:08 888/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 28 11:44 999991/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 28 11:44 999992/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 28 11:45 999993/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Oct 28 11:45 999994/
drwxr-----  2 nobody nogroup 4.0K Nov  4 08:08 999996/

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @fadeway ,
Proxmox, by default, does not enforce this range. Someone in your organization set the range.
Look at "datacenter.cfg" file for details:

cat /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg
keyboard: en-us
mac_prefix: BC:24:14
next-id: lower=9000

You can actuate the range via GUI in datacenter options.

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