============================= Virtual Machine Disk Profiles

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.