diff --git a/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/basic/tasks/ceph-admin-commands.yaml b/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/basic/tasks/ceph-admin-commands.yaml
index fc4873ceed1..7d11f2a7f0d 100644
--- a/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/basic/tasks/ceph-admin-commands.yaml
+++ b/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/basic/tasks/ceph-admin-commands.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+openstack:
+  - machine:
+      disk: 10
+    volumes:
+      count: 2
+      size: 20
 roles:
 - - mon.a
   - mgr.x
diff --git a/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/ceph-volume/cluster/4node.yaml b/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/ceph-volume/cluster/4node.yaml
index 1dddbe73e65..bf4a7f98695 100644
--- a/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/ceph-volume/cluster/4node.yaml
+++ b/qa/suites/ceph-deploy/ceph-volume/cluster/4node.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+overrides:
+ ansible.cephlab: 
+  vars: 
+   quick_lvs_to_create: 4
+openstack:
+  - machine:
+      disk: 10
+    volumes:
+      count: 4
+      size: 20
 roles:
 - [mon.a, mgr.y, osd.0, osd.1]
 - [mon.b, osd.2, osd.3]