Add support for NVME controllers

[hutger]

Description

Hi there,

I've created a template using Packer with three attached NVME disks.

When I try to run Terraform for deploying an instance using this template, I get the message:

Error: there must be at least one disk specified

It seems that Terraform is not able to find the NVME disks attached (since the only opinions are pvscsi, buslogic, etc, but none NVME), even though I add an extra_config informing NVME is presenting:

disk_size_gb = var.vmRootDiskSize
scsi_type = var.vmScsiType
extra_config = {
"nvme0.present" = "True"
"nvme0.0.present" = "True"

PS: If we deploy a new instance using the Template manually, the instance boots up as expected.

References

As per the documentation, scsi_type NVME is not supported.
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/vsphere/latest/docs/resources/virtual_machine#scsi_type

Community Note

Is the support for NVME on the roadmap (or maybe there's a workaround for now)?

Thanks for any suggestion or advice,

Hutger

[apollo13]

I do not think it makes sense to extend scsi_type to include NVME. it will need it's own nvme_ options like ide_ & sata_.

[hutger]

Hi @apollo13 , would you propose an alternative approach for rolling out instances with NVME attached?

[apollo13]

I don't think it is currently possibly with the terraform provider. If you do terraform import of an existing machine with nvme disks you will see that those are not discovered at all. I fear there are plenty of changes needed :/

[eizedev]

+1 for adding support for NVME controller (We would like to change the default from pvscsi to nvme in the future)

I am needing to recreate my template (made in Packer, also a HashiCorp project) to not use nvme because of this issue

[alexanderek]

When will this be supported?

[vash1028]

Any update on this?

[ryan-peterson3]

This is going to become a thing as NVME becomes the standard. Is support coming on this?

[lostplan]

+1 this would be really useful