vsphere_vmfs_disks

The vsphere_vmfs_disks data source can be used to discover the storage devices available on an ESXi host. This data source can be combined with the vsphere_vmfs_datastore resource to create VMFS datastores based off a set of discovered disks.

Example Usage

data "vsphere_datacenter" "datacenter" {
  name = "dc1"
}

data "vsphere_host" "host" {
  name          = "esxi1"
  datacenter_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.datacenter.id}"
}

data "vsphere_vmfs_disks" "available" {
  host_system_id = "${data.vsphere_host.host.id}"
  rescan         = true
  filter         = "mpx.vmhba1:C0:T[12]:L0"
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

host_system_id - (Required) The managed object ID of the host to look for disks on.
rescan - (Optional) Whether or not to rescan storage adapters before searching for disks. This may lengthen the time it takes to perform the search. Default: false.
filter - (Optional) A regular expression to filter the disks against. Only disks with canonical names that match will be included.

NOTE: Using a filter is recommended if there is any chance the host will have any specific storage devices added to it that may affect the order of the output disks attribute below, which is lexicographically sorted.

Attribute Reference

disks - A lexicographically sorted list of devices discovered by the operation, matching the supplied filter, if provided.