Configure SATA for VMware hypervisors

Use SATA controllers for cloud-init ISO drives

The multi-cloud platform uses a configuration drive to present the cloud-init configuration to a guest VM. By default, the platform uses an IDE controller to attach the ISO drive.

To specify the use of SATA controllers with cloud-init:

Edit the abiquo.properties file on the Remote Services server
Set the following cloudinit.sata property
```
abiquo.esxi.cloudinit.sata=true
```
Restart the Tomcat server

Use SATA controllers for ISO drives by default

The default controller list for ESXi plugins is now "SCSI, IDE, SATA".

So by default, the platform will use an IDE controller for attaching an ISO disk.

To use SATA controllers by default:

Edit the abiquo.properties file on the Remote Services server
Set the pluginmetadata disk controller properties for VMware and add SATA before IDE.
(SCSI is not important in the order because it is not used for CD or DVD drives).
```
abiquo.pluginmetadata.{hypervisor_type}.diskControllers=SATA,SCSI,IDE
```
For each hypervisor type to configure, set the property value, replacing hypervisor_type in the property key with an appropriate code as follows:
1. "esx" for ESXi hosts
2. "vmx_04" for vCenter
3. "vcenter_cluster" for vCenter clusters
Restart the Tomcat server

Disable SATA

If your version of VMware does not support SATA (for example, vCenter 5.1), then you should remove SATA support to prevent errors.

To remove SATA support:

Edit the abiquo.properties file on the Remote Services server
Set the pluginmetadata disk controller properties for VMware and remove SATA
```
abiquo.pluginmetadata.{hypervisor_type}.diskControllers=IDE,SCSI
```
For each hypervisor type to configure, set the property value, replacing hypervisor_type in the property key with one of the following codes:
1. "esx" for ESXi hosts
2. "vmx_04" for vCenter
3. "vcenter_cluster" for vCenter clusters
Restart the Tomcat server

Limitations and notes about SATA support

SATA support on guest operating systems is as follows.

Abiquo always supports two SATA controllers with unit numbers from 0 to 19, even when the guest operating system may support more.
Abiquo uses the controller selected by the API, based on the user selection or the platform defaults. It does not use the recommendation of SATA controller for the Guest OS selected for the template.
This feature also fixes some incorrect mappings of 32 bit operating systems for version 5.5: rhel7Guest, other3xLinuxGuest, debian7Guest, sles12Guest.