Expand a Virtual Disk in VMware vSphere Virtual Machine - Ansible module vmware_guest_disk — Video Tutorial

How to Expand a Virtual Disk in VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Ansible Expand a Virtual Disk in VMware vSphere Virtual Machine - `community.vmware.vmware_guest_disk` - Manage disks related to a virtual machine in a 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 a virtual machine in a given vCenter infrastructure. Parameters - hostname string / username string / password string / datacenter string / validate_certs boolean - connection details - datacenter string - The datacenter name to which the virtual machine belongs to - scsi_controller / unit_number / scsi_type string - SCSI controller details - size / size_kb / size_mb / size_gb / size_tb string - Disk storage size - disk_mode string - persistent / independent_persistent / independent_nonpersistent The following parameters are useful in order to Expand a Virtual Disk in VMware vSphere Virtual Machine using the module `vmware_guest_disk`. First of all, we need to establish the connection with VMware vSphere or VMware vCenter using a plethora self-explicative parameters: `hostname`, `username`, `password`, `datacenter`, and `validate_certs`. Once the connection is successfully established you could specify the desired disk configuration, in this expansion, a disk is connected to a virtual machine. The mandatory parameters are only `datacenter` and `unit_number`. The `datacenter` parameter specifies which datacenter name the virtual machine belongs to, for resources allocations. The disk must be connected to a SCSI controller inside the virtual machine, so you should specify all the small details like `scsi_controller`, `unit_number`, and `scsi_type`. You might be interested in deep-diving into some performance analysis to properly adjust these parameters. You could specify the disk size via various parameters according to the needed size unit: kb, MB, GB, TB, etc. One most important parameter is the `disk_mode`, default to `persistent` mode, other options are `independent_persistent` and `independent_nonpersistent`. Links - [`community.vmware.vmware_guest_disk`](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_disk_module.html) ## Playbook How to Expand a Virtual Disk in VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to expand the size of an additional disk connected to a Virtual Machine named "myvm" using Ansible Playbook. The disk is connected to a SCSI controller number 1 and has unit number 1. The beginning of the Playbook has a size of 1 GB and we would like to expand it to 2 GB. code - vm_disk_expand.yml ```yaml --- - name: vm disk Playbook hosts: loc