On 28.08.2019 16:48, MKPhil wrote:
> That's not a datacenter issue - you can have two VMs with the same name in
> the same datacenter but VMWare does not recommend this -
> https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2108769

I would say it is.
A datacenter is a namespace that makes it possible to have the same name for 
VMs, templates, hosts, clusters, networks and datastores across datacenters. 
But must of them need to be uniq within the datacenter.


> vmware_guest_facts has a "name_match" parameter "If multiple virtual
> machines matching the name, use the first or last found." (see
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/vmware_guest_facts_module.html#vmware-guest-facts-module)
> to cater for this but in my opinion (I support over 20,000 vms), you should
> probably really aim to have unique names.

IMHO it's missing the option fail.


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Kai Stian Olstad

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