Support for vSphere Storage DRS #10004
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Description
From the documentation doesn't seems to be possible to have a packer build with the vsphere-iso builder specifying a Storage DRS, only a specific Datastore is allowed. I've tried to set the Storage DRS name as the datastore property but it fails with:
==> vsphere-iso.packer-build-name: error creating vm: datastore 'Storage-DRS-name' not found
Use Case(s)
Usually using the Storage DRS allows to keep the same configuration even if new datastores are added for more storage.
Potential configuration
I'm not sure if new configuration would be required. Packer could first search for Storage DRS and look for a match of the datastore property and if found use it otherwise look for a match of single datastores.