[VCL-1025] Update naming convention for VMware VMs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: vcld (backend)
• Assignee: Andrew Kurth
• Reporter: Andrew Kurth
• Created: 16/Mar/17 22:06
• Updated: 16/Mar/17 23:37
• Resolved: 16/Mar/17 23:37

Description

The VMware ESXi 6.5 web console displays the following warning when editing a VM provisioned by VCL:

The virtual machine's name cannot contain double quote, colon or slash characters

The current naming convention is:
<computer.hostname>:<imagerevision.imagename> (<shared>|<dedicated>)

The colon can be replaced with an underscore. The shared/dedicated was added to be able to tell if a VM uses a shared virtual disk (linked clone) or a complete copy of an image was created for the VM. This isn't very useful.

It would be useful to change the display name for VMs that are actively assigned to a reservation.