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Description of problem:
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as a part of the new KubeVirt rate limiting testing, I tried to increase the number of virt-api pods using this which had no issues before,
I suspect the new auto virt-api auto-scaler overwrites the manual patch.

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apiVersion: hco.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
kind: HyperConverged
metadata:
annotations:
deployOVS: "false"
hco.kubevirt.io/tuningPolicy: '

{"qps":200,"burst":400}

'
kubevirt.kubevirt.io/jsonpatch: '[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/customizeComponents/patches",
"value": [{"resourceType": "Deployment", "resourceName": "virt-api", "type":
"json", "patch": "[

{\"op\": \"replace\", \"path\": \"/spec/replicas\", \"value\": 6}

]"}]}]'
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oc get deployment virt-api -o yaml

readyReplicas: 2
replicas: 2
updatedReplicas: 2
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oc -n openshift-cnv get kubevirt kubevirt -o yaml

customizeComponents:
patches:

• patch: '[ {"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/replicas", "value": 6}

  ]'
  resourceName: virt-api
  resourceType: Deployment
  type: json
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  Boaz Ben Shabat, 10:29 AM
  [root@e29-h19-740xd storms_tool]# oc get pod -n openshift-cnv|grep virt-api
  virt-api-8795754c5-npd5m                               1/1     Running   1               30h
  virt-api-8795754c5-v8tn5                               1/1     Running   1               30h
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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openshift-cnv 4.13.0-1689
openshift-local-storage 4.12.0-202302061702
openshift-storage 4.12.0

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How reproducible:
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every time.

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Steps to Reproduce:
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apply the following patch:

oc patch hco -n openshift-cnv kubevirt-hyperconverged --type=merge -p '{"metadata":{"annotations":{"kubevirt.kubevirt.io/jsonpatch":"[{\"op\": \"add\", \"path\": \"/spec/customizeComponents/patches\", \"value\": [{\"resourceType\": \"Deployment\", \"resourceName\": \"virt-api\", \"type\": \"json\", \"patch\": \"[

{\\\"op\\\": \\\"replace\\\", \\\"path\\\": \\\"/spec/replicas\\\", \\\"value\\\": 6}

]\"}]}]"}}}'

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Expected results:
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the number of virt-api pods should increase to 6