Insufficient resources for SoftLayer VLAN issue

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When I attempted to create an autoscale group with one VM, Softlayer complained about the message below.

There are insufficient resources behind router bcr02.wdc01 to fulfill the request for the following guests: sltest-8f0e

I know that it most likely caused by me having selected a VLAN with insufficient portal IP address. As I can see this VLAN has two portable subnets, each one having one unused portable IP address. So theoretically it should be able to allow me to create one VM within this VLAN. Could you explain why I get this error message? Which parameter should I check in order to know if this VLAN has unallocated IP addresses for creating an autoscale group?

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Servers can only provisioned over PRIMARY or ADDITIONAL_PRIMARY subnets, in case that you select a VLAN which doesn't have a PRIMARY with available slots, another subnet of this kind (PRIMARY) will be provisioned automatically in the VLAN.

The exception means that there are no places to put a new instance behind the router, there is just no space. So you need to define another vlan located in other pod. You can try with SAN or LOCAL (if you would like to get more info about this, submit a ticket for it)

To check vlans, you can use the following rest request (it will provide vlans for a specific datacenter):

https://$user:[email protected]/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Account/getNetworkVlans?objectFilter={"networkVlans":{"primaryRouter":{"datacenter":{"name":{"operation":"seo01"}}},"networkSpace":{"operation":"PRIVATE"}}}

Method: Get

Replace: $user, $apiKey, seo01 (datacenter's name), PRIVATE (options: PRIVATE or PUBLIC).