Import VM and rename

[netbja]

Hello Ricardo,

A new idea to import VMs from vCenter by changing the name.

The fitst idea is that my VMs have a display name with a comment in brackets
ex: SERVER1 (LDAP Server)

It would be very useful to do the import by deleting the data between parenthesis and put the display name in lower case.
So I could use the dynamic inventory (ansible) on the VM hostname with --limit

Second idea, an interesting trick would be to set custom fields with the vCenter import.
"vm_uuid": 56XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

Thank you for this great sync tool !

Bernard.

[bb-Ricardo]

Hi Bernard,

Your 1st idea:
I don't really get what you are trying to do. Do you mean SERVER1 (LDAP Server) should become server1?

This would be quite difficult to put into config as there are so many possibilities of how to change a name.

Your 2nd idea:
This sounds quite interesting and quite easy to add. This could be a config option with a comma separated list of VM attributes which then get added as Custom attribute to each VM.

[netbja]

HI Ricardo,

Yes, for my first idea SERVER1 (LDAP Server) -> server1, I understand that it's a bit of a crazy idea...

But don't worry, I'm going to creae a script to rename the VMs names.

For the second one, as soon as it is ready, I can test for you :-)