aarkwright

PREREQUISITE:

Set disk.EnableUUID to TRUE in your vSphere VM config parameters under:

vSphere > VM > Edit Settings > VM Options > Advanced > Configuration Parameters > Edit Configuration

Note: VM needs to be offline to add/change this k:v pair

NOTE: This is a question I found on StackOverflow which I’ve archived here, because the answer is so effing phenomenal.

If you are not into long explanations, see [Paolo Bergantino’s answer][2].

	│ Error: creating Linux Virtual Machine "<redacted>" (Resource Group "<redacted>): compute.VirtualMachinesClient#CreateOrUpdate: Failure sending request: StatusCode=0 -- Original Error: Code="InvalidParameter" Message="StorageProfile.dataDisks.lun does not have required value(s) for image specified in storage profile." Target="storageProfile"
	│
	│ with azurerm_linux_virtual_machine.virtual_machine[0],
	│ on main.tf line 89, in resource "azurerm_linux_virtual_machine" "virtual_machine":
	│ 78: resource "azurerm_linux_virtual_machine" "virtual_machine" {

	# Connect to both our SRM enabled vCenters
	Connect-VIServer <your_vcenter_server>
	# ^^ repeat as needed

	# An array to store collected data and output it to .csv at the end
	$Results = @()

	# Set an array to store our ESXi hosts and populate it with data
	$ESXs = @()
	$ESXs += Get-Cluster "some cluster name" \| Get-VMhost