Andy, Will the computer name not changing cause performance problems? I've noticed that a message stating "Duplicate Name exists on the network" shows on the vm when you view it through ESXi, which leads me to wonder if this is an issue.
Kelly >>> Andy Kurth <andy_ku...@ncsu.edu> 10/19/10 4:25 PM >>> Currently, the computer name is only changed if Sysprep is enabled. I would like to add the ability to control whether or not the name gets changes independent from Sysprep and created an issue a few weeks ago: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-392 -Andy Kelly Robinson wrote: > At what point in the provisioning of the vm does the netbios name get changed > for each vm? I've noticed that the our vms are retaining the netbios name of > the base image. I see in the code that there is a script called > set_computer_name.vbs that works if you have wsname.exe in place (which we > do), but the computer is supposed to get a random name even if this the > wsname.exe utility is not available. What could be the possible issue? > > Kelly > > > Kelly P. Robinson > Georgia State University / IS&T > Software Systems Engineer, Lead > Platforms and Storage Engineering > krobinso...@gsu.edu / 404-413-4757 > > >
