[Suggestion] Comment/Description field to accompany VM disks?

reidanb

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Hi,

Wasn't sure whether to post here or create a GitHub issue.

Whilst managing VMs it's generally a hassle to cross-reference disk IDs all the time and I can imagine lead to people accidentally deleting the wrong disk - especially when more than one disk is on the VM with same pool/capacity. Could I suggest the implementation of a metadata field to allow users to set a description for disks? I made a crude mock-up, attached.

Thanks!
 

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You can already set notes on disks. However the support for it is only in API for the moment, if I am not mistaken, and only on select storage backends:
CephFS, Directory, CIFS, PBS and Blockbridge:

pvesh set /nodes/PROXMOX_HOST/storage/blockbridge/content/vm-100-disk-0 -notes "volume notes for volume0"

The first 3, being file system based, keep notes in a special file. I am not sure where PBS keeps them. In Blockbridge we take advantage of extensible metadata that can be programmed into the disk on our side.

It happened around here: https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2020-November/046072.html

Code:
root@pve7demo1:~# pvesh set /nodes/pve7demo1/storage/blockbridge1/content/vm-100-disk-0 -notes "volume notes for volume0"
root@pve7demo1:~# pvesh get /nodes/pve7demo1/storage/blockbridge1/content
┌────────┬────────────┬────────────────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────────┬────────┬───────────┬────────────┬──────────────┬──────┐
│ format │       size │ volid                          │      ctime │ encrypted │ notes                    │ parent │ protected │       used │ verification │ vmid │
╞════════╪════════════╪════════════════════════════════╪════════════╪═══════════╪══════════════════════════╪════════╪═══════════╪════════════╪══════════════╪══════╡
│ raw    │ 132.00 GiB │ blockbridge1:vm-100-disk-0     │ 1645724996 │           │ volume notes for volume0 │        │           │     0.00 B │              │  100 │


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