I'm also seeing this in my environment, which has cross_az_attach=False. Nova AZ: root@cantu-rpco-master01-utility-container-e592a0d6:~# nova availability-zone-list +----------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Name | Status | +----------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | internal | available | | |- cantu-rpco-master01-nova-cert-container-0af67b8a | | | | |- nova-cert | enabled :-) 2017-04-19T16:54:00.000000 | | |- cantu-rpco-master01-nova-conductor-container-2fabdc9a | | | | |- nova-conductor | enabled :-) 2017-04-19T16:53:57.000000 | | |- cantu-rpco-master01-nova-console-container-7e2e9044 | | | | |- nova-consoleauth | enabled :-) 2017-04-19T16:54:00.000000 | | |- cantu-rpco-master01-nova-scheduler-container-62144ac1 | | | | |- nova-scheduler | enabled :-) 2017-04-19T16:53:56.000000 | | alex | available | | |- cantu-rpco-master01 | | | | |- nova-compute | enabled :-) 2017-04-19T16:53:57.000000 | +----------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ Cinder AZ: root@cantu-rpco-master01-utility-container-e592a0d6:~# cinder availability-zone-list +------+-----------+ | Name | Status | +------+-----------+ | alex | available | +------+-----------+ Created bootable volume: root@cantu-rpco-master01-utility-container-e592a0d6:~# openstack volume create --image $IMAGE --availability-zone alex --size 2 boot_vol_alex WARNING: openstackclient.common.utils is deprecated and will be removed after Jun 2017. Please use osc_lib.utils +---------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +---------------------+--------------------------------------+ | attachments | [] | | availability_zone | alex | | bootable | false | | consistencygroup_id | None | | created_at | 2017-04-19T16:52:31.729774 | | description | None | | encrypted | False | | id | 9ee8b04e-edc4-4d70-9842-2d0781d414f9 | | migration_status | None | | multiattach | False | | name | boot_vol_alex | | properties | | | replication_status | disabled | | size | 2 | | snapshot_id | None | | source_volid | None | | status | creating | | type | None | | updated_at | None | | user_id | d0d694e2a7624a618c749ce117751e28 | +---------------------+--------------------------------------+ Attempted to create instance from bootable volume: root@cantu-rpco-master01-utility-container-e592a0d6:~# openstack server create --volume boot_vol_alex --flavor $FLAVOR --nic net-id=b35ac608-2c01-45d6-86de-5d12304279ff --availability-zone alex alex_boot2 WARNING: openstackclient.common.utils is deprecated and will be removed after Jun 2017. Please use osc_lib.utils Block Device Mapping is Invalid: failed to get volume 9ee8b04e-edc4-4d70-9842-2d0781d414f9. (HTTP 400) (Request-ID: req-f76e65f2-4a72-4184-ba36-e9fdca5bbad0) root@cantu-rpco-master01-utility-container-e592a0d6:~# cinder availability-zone-list