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Virtual Machine Disk Profiles
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Salt Virt allows for the disks created for deployed virtual machines
to be finely configured. The configuration is a simple data structure which is
read from the ``config.option`` function, meaning that the configuration can be
stored in the minion config file, the master config file, or the minion's
pillar.
This configuration option is called ``virt.disk``. The default ``virt.disk``
data structure looks like this:
.. code-block:: yaml
virt.disk:
default:
- system:
size: 8192
format: qcow2
model: virtio
.. note::
The format and model does not need to be defined, Salt will
default to the optimal format used by the underlying hypervisor,
in the case of kvm this it is :strong:`qcow2` and
:strong:`virtio`.
This configuration sets up a disk profile called default. The default
profile creates a single system disk on the virtual machine.
Define More Profiles
====================
Many environments will require more complex disk profiles and may require
more than one profile, this can be easily accomplished:
.. code-block:: yaml
virt.disk:
default:
- system:
size: 8192
database:
- system:
size: 8192
- data:
size: 30720
web:
- system:
size: 1024
- logs:
size: 5120
This configuration allows for one of three profiles to be selected,
allowing virtual machines to be created with different storage needs
of the deployed vm.