diff --git a/docs/source/osds/scenarios.rst b/docs/source/osds/scenarios.rst
index a4deb6ba0..20e88e773 100644
--- a/docs/source/osds/scenarios.rst
+++ b/docs/source/osds/scenarios.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ The ``lvm`` scenario mentioned above support both containerized and non-containe
 As a reminder, deploying a containerized cluster can be done by setting ``containerized_deployment``
 to ``True``.
 
+If you want to skip OSD creation during a ``ceph-ansible run``
+(e.g. because you have already provisioned your OSDs but disk IDs have
+changed), you can skip the ``prepare_osd`` tag i.e. by specifying
+``--skip-tags prepare_osd`` on the ``ansible-playbook`` command line.
+
 .. _osd_scenario_lvm:
 
 lvm