Configuration for an existing disk to be attached to the VM.
Attribute
Name
Description
disk
str
If disk contains slashes, the Cloud Life Sciences API
assumes that it is a complete URL for the disk. If disk
does not contain slashes, the Cloud Life Sciences API
assumes that the disk is a zonal disk and a URL will be
generated of the form zones/, where
is the zone in which the instance is allocated.
The disk must be ext4 formatted.
If all Mount references to this disk have the
read_only flag set to true, the disk will be attached in
read-only mode and can be shared with other instances.
Otherwise, the disk will be available for writing but cannot
be shared.
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