Packer: vsphere-clone Multiple Disk Support

[divy4]

Description

In #8749, the ability to add multiple disks was added to the vsphere-iso builder. Can this ability be added to the vsphere-clone builder as well?

Use Case(s)

I have a large number of templates I would like to build with Packer that all use the same OS, but varying number of drives. In order to save time and compute resources, I use the vsphere-iso builder to create a template that only installs the OS and then make several templates using the vsphere-clone template that make any tweaks needed for each use case. But because vsphere-clone doesn't support configuring multiple drives, I have to make a vsphere-iso template for every number of drives that are added to the template. If the ability of adding additional disks was added to vsphere-clone, then only 1 vsphere-iso template would be needed and each vsphere-clone template would add any additional disks that are needed.

Potential configuration

The same as vsphere-iso builder, specifically the disk_controller_type and storage attributes.

[sylviamoss]

Hey there, thanks for reaching out. I think this is possible and we will try to address it for the next release.

[divy4]

Just checking in, any updates on this or anything I can help out with?

[SwampDragons]

We're working on mostly internal and tech-debt related stuff right now, so the best way to see this merged soon is to open a PR.

[SwampDragons]

This has been closed in the linked PR -- you can find binaries here https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/hashicorp/packer/8035/workflows/d73dea87-f771-4977-b421-e451373d5be4/jobs/93314/artifacts or you can wait for Tuesday's "nightly" dev release.

[divy4]

Ah, thank you so much! I just got access to my vSphere environment yesterday, so I'll see how it goes!