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Add a New Hard Disk to VMware vSphere Virtual Machine — Ansible module vmware_guest_disk
How to automate the addition of a 1GB size Hard Disk to VMware Virtual Machine guest named “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_disk module.
5 min readMay 24, 2022
How to Add a new hard disk to VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Ansible Add disk to VMware vSphere Virtual Machine
- `
community.vmware.vmware_guest_disk
` - Manage disks related to virtual machines in given vCenter infrastructure
Let’s talk about the Ansible module `vmware_guest_disk
`.
The full name is `community.vmware.vmware_guest_disk
`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported.
It manages disks related to the virtual machines in a given vCenter infrastructure.