Packer: vsphere-iso builder deploy multiple disks?

[Raj Wurttemberg]

I'm trying to get Packer (1.5.5) to deploy multiple disks for a specialized (USGCB compliant) template and I need it to have four separate disks. I'm using the vsphere-iso builder. The "disk_size" parameter deploys the root drive fine. I found the 'storage' parameter which I think is used to deploy the other disks...

storage ([]DiskConfig) - A collection of one or more disks to be provisioned along with the VM

But I can't seem to figure out the format that the data needs to be in - in the json file. I tried...

"storage": [

   {

   "storage[0]": "20673",

   "storage[1]": "16384",

   "storage[2]": "4096"

   }

 ]

and

"storage": [

   {

   "20673",

   "16384",

   "4096"

   }

 ]

but none of those worked. I can't find anything in the vsphere-iso builder documentation about DiskConfig either.

Thanks,

/Raj W.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

try like this

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/cc257387f151c3dddb1cacc55cddb301caed6314/website/pages/partials/builder/vsphere/iso/DiskConfig.mdx

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[B Baijnauth]

Alvaro,

I attempted to setup my template like your example but I get the error: * unknown configuration key: "storage"; raws is []interface.

My template looks like:

         "storage":[
           {
             "disk_controller_type":"pvscsi",
             "disk_size":"{{user `disk_size`}}",
             "disk_thin_provisioned":true
           },
           {
             "disk_controller_type":"pvscsi",
             "disk_size":"{{user `disk_size`}}",
             "disk_thin_provisioned":true
           },
           {
             "disk_controller_type":"pvscsi",
             "disk_size":"{{user `disk_size`}}",
             "disk_thin_provisioned":true
           }
         ],

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[B Baijnauth]

All,

The issue occurred because I was using a version of Packer that didn't support this parameter. I updated from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6 and it worked.