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[GitHub] [cloudstack-documentation] harikrishna-patnala commented on a change in pull request #177: vm: fix display name, internal name notes
harikrishna-patnala commented on a change in pull request #177:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/177#discussion_r565065304
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File path: source/adminguide/virtual_machines.rst
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@@ -325,36 +325,22 @@ To access a VM through the CloudStack UI:
Appending a Display Name to the Guest VM’s Internal Name
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-Every guest VM has an internal name. The host uses the internal name to
-identify the guest VMs. CloudStack gives you an option to provide a
-guest VM with a display name. You can set this display name as the
-internal name so that the vCenter can use it to identify the guest VM. A
-new global parameter, vm.instancename.flag, has now been added to
-achieve this functionality.
-
-The default format of the internal name is
-i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name>, where instance.name is a global
-parameter. However, If vm.instancename.flag is set to true, and if a
-display name is provided during the creation of a guest VM, the display
-name is appended to the internal name of the guest VM on the host. This
-makes the internal name format as i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<displayName>.
-The default value of vm.instancename.flag is set to false. This feature
-is intended to make the correlation between instance names and internal
-names easier in large data center deployments.
-
-The following table explains how a VM name is displayed in different
-scenarios.
+Every guest VM has an internal name. The host uses the internal name to identify the guest VMs. CloudStack gives you an option to provide a guest VM with a name. You can set this name as the internal name so that the vCenter can use it to identify the guest VM. A new global parameter, vm.instancename.flag, has now been added to achieve this functionality.
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+The default format of the internal name is i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name>, where instance.name is a global parameter. However, If vm.instancename.flag is set to true, and if a name is provided during the creation of a guest VM, the name is appended to the internal name of the guest VM on the host. This makes the internal name format as i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<name>. The default value of vm.instancename.flag is set to false. This feature is intended to make the correlation between instance names and internal names easier in large data center deployments.
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+The following table explains how a VM name is displayed in different scenarios.
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-============================= ======================= ==================== ===================================== ==========================
-User-Provided Display Name vm.instancename.flag Hostname on the VM Name on vCenter Internal Name
-============================= ======================= ==================== ===================================== ==========================
-Yes True Display name i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-displayName i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-displayName
-No True UUID i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name> i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name>
-Yes False Display name i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name> i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name>
-No False UUID i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name> i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name>
-============================= ======================= ==================== ===================================== ==========================
+============================= ======================= ====================== ====================== ====================== ===================================== ==========================
+User-Provided Display Name vm.instancename.flag User Display Name Hostname on the VM Name on vCenter Internal Name
+============================= ======================= ====================== ====================== ====================== ===================================== ==========================
+Yes True Name Display name Name i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-name i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-name
+No True <instance.name>-<UUID> <instance.name>-<UUID> <instance.name>-<UUID> i-<user\_id>-<vm\_id>-<instance.name> <instance.name>-<UUID>
Review comment:
@shwstppr can you please review the 2nd case, name on vCenter should be "<instance.name>-<UUID>" and internal name is "i-<user_id>-<vm_id>-<instance.name>"
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