There is no good reason i am aware of. CloudStack was designed under a premise it will be ran by Cloud hosting and not enterprise. Hence there was not much emphasis on cloudstack instance name VS display name.
With that said, down the road a feature has been added only to VMware to enable display name in vCenter. What hypervisors are you running? On 2/23/16 12:41 AM, Erik Weber wrote: > Hi, > > Before I file a bug I'd like to check if anyone know a good reason for > hiding the instance name, that is the typical i-2-123-VM name, from users? > > There are cases where an error returns the instancename rather than > name/uuid, and this is confusing when users have no means to map that to > something they know. > > Example log where instance name is used: > > Failed to attach volume myvolume to VM mymachine; Device 1 is used in VM > i-2-123-VM"} > > If you do operations manually, or one by one then it is easy to correlate > it to your last action, but couple this with any kind of automation where > you do things in parallell and it becomes a nightmare to figure out of. > > Opinions? >
