diff --git a/roles/nova/vars/main.yml b/roles/nova/vars/main.yml
index e47eeb9..8c1e66f 100644
--- a/roles/nova/vars/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nova/vars/main.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
         resume_guests_state_on_host_boot: true
         osapi_compute_workers: 8
         metadata_workers: 8
+      api:
+        list_records_by_skipping_down_cells: false
       barbican:
         barbican_endpoint_type: internal
       cache: