The arguments that the Cinder CLI takes are reversed from what this doc currently states. $ cinder --os-volume-api-version 3.62 default-type-set usage: cinder default-type-set <volume_type> <project_id> error: the following arguments are required: <volume_type>, <project_id> Change-Id: I72df8ed5b1d805e0596ba3d13ce28b29accedcae