Verify the capacity of the Equinix Metal facility¶

Install the Equinix Metal CLI.
Obtain USER_API_TOKEN for the Equinix Metal authentication:
1. Log in to the Equinix Metal console.
2. Capture the existing API key with the Read/Write permissions or create a new one:
  1. In Personal Settings > Personal API Keys, click Add New Key.
  2. Fill in the Description and select the Read/Write permissions.
  3. Click Add Key.
Configure the Equinix Metal authentication by exporting the METAL_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable. Replace USER_API_TOKEN with your USER_API_TOKEN:
```
export METAL_AUTH_TOKEN=USER_API_TOKEN
```
For more details, see Equinix Metal authentication.
Verify the capacity of the Equinix Metal facility selected for the management cluster bootstrap:
```
metal capacity check -f $EQUINIX_FACILITY -P $EQUINIX_MACHINE_TYPE -q $MACHINES_AMOUNT
```
Note

Depending on your metal CLI version, naming of flags may vary. To verify naming of flags available for your metal CLI version, run metal capacity check --help.

In the command above, replace $EQUINIX_FACILITY, $EQUINIX_MACHINE_TYPE and $MACHINES_AMOUNT with corresponding values of your cluster.

For example, to verify that Equinix Metal can create 6 machines of the c3.small.x86 type in the am6 facility, run:
```
metal capacity check -f am6 -P c3.small.x86 -q 6
```
In the system response, verify that the AVAILABILITY section has the true value.

Example of a positive system response:
```
+----------+--------------+----------+--------------+
| FACILITY |     PLAN     | QUANTITY | AVAILABILITY |
+----------+--------------+----------+--------------+
| am6      | c3.small.x86 | 6        | true         |
+----------+--------------+----------+--------------+
```