[RFE] add disk storage method returning the information about storage

[jcarter12]

1. • Proposed title of this feature request?
     new add disk storage method with information about storage

2. • What is the nature and description of the request?
     User implementing a use case in my Cloudforms instance to add new disks by automation task.
     The add_disk method return boolean value , and user would need return with the create storage information.

     code used for the implementation is the following :

size=40
@vm=$evm.vmdb(:vm).find_by_name('CMP1KDTCAPP229')
disks=@vm.hardware.disks
result = @vm.add_disk("[#{@vm.storage_name}]", size * 1024, :sync => true, :thin_provisioned => true, :dependent => true)

The "result" variable contain a Boolean value : true/false

It would be really better an easier to have the added disk description returned by such command, especially the SCSI address of the new disk.

In my current implementation, I am counting the number of disk before the disk addition, doing the addition, and then waiting for the number of disk to be higher that initially ... then I select the last disk, found the SCSI address and launch and Ansible playbook to format the new disk based on its SCSI address.

3. • Why does the user need this?
     The issue is that if several disk are added at almost the same time I am not able to distinguish them and find which is related to one request and which other is relater to other request.
4. • How would the user like to achieve this?
     creating a new method similar like add_disk , just with returned storage info.
5. • Org Source: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1779992

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