Adding and formatting additional disks

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Hi,

I’d like to get some community input on this scenario;

Using vmware.vmware.deploy_content_library_ovf you can deploy an imagebuilder image.

Adding an additional disk after the deployment is difficult using vmware.vmware.vm compared to community.vmware.vm_guest_disk because vmware.vmware is quite explicit instead of implicit.

The community module just adds an extra disk, whereas using vmware.vmware.vm requires you to figure out the list of disks before adding (and increasing the SCSI bus numbers) to the existing machine.

Does anyone have an example on how to do this while keeping the playbook modular and end up with a working machine?

The additional disk should be formatted using the redhat.rhel_system_roles.storage role (or the upstream linux system roles variant)

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I dont have a concrete example, but I think using an _info module to get the current disks would be the answer. vmware.vmware.guest_info doesnt return this information, so maybe an opportunity for an enhancement