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    <title>topic Re: remove appending -mcm####-##### in VMware Aria Automation Tools Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920967#M24538</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5568455"&gt;@justaregulardud&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;here is the sample screenshot&lt;BR /&gt;Add this to your Project&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Ankush11s_1-1658983318141.png" style="width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/96449iF5F4C95F572AE2A2/image-size/medium/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="Ankush11s_1-1658983318141.png" alt="Ankush11s_1-1658983318141.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;and in Cloud template Yaml you give this .&lt;BR /&gt;name: ${self.resourceName}&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:43:07 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Ankush11s</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-07-28T04:43:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920641#M24524</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello everyone, I am having a dilemma here.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I currently have&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Cloud_vSphere_Machine_1:&lt;BR /&gt;type: Cloud.vSphere.Machine&lt;BR /&gt;properties:&lt;BR /&gt;constraints:&lt;BR /&gt;- tag: ${input.Datacenter}&lt;BR /&gt;name: ${input.customName}${input.VMcount}${input.Datacenter}&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;When I do a test it appends a very long identifier&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Example&lt;BR /&gt;customname=test&lt;BR /&gt;Vmcount=1&lt;BR /&gt;datacenter=us&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;the name for the VM becomes test1us-mcm####-######&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is there a way that I can remove this ? and just follow the inputs I have on the name?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I have tried adding a new naming template for resource type machine with just ${resource.name} but it's giving me an invalid pattern&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks in advance&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:16:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920641#M24524</guid>
      <dc:creator>justaregulardud</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-26T18:16:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920765#M24528</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Unfortunately not possible at the moment -&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vRealize-Automation-Tools/Disable-Custom-Names/m-p/2917734" target="_blank"&gt;https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vRealize-Automation-Tools/Disable-Custom-Names/m-p/2917734&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;BR /&gt;Robert&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:21:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920765#M24528</guid>
      <dc:creator>rwk1982</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-27T09:21:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920839#M24531</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Re-installing doesn't seem to help&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:58:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920839#M24531</guid>
      <dc:creator>ajayran</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-27T17:58:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920928#M24537</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Sorry I didn't see this thread and I responded in the other one linked in this message.&amp;nbsp; I don't have an environment I can test in but I think an extensibility set on the machine provisioning pre event you can likely override this.&amp;nbsp; I am just boggled by the decisions VMware makes sometimes it's like they are in a bubble.&amp;nbsp; For those of us trying to use vRA on top of some long established ways of managing our virtual environments changes like this can break all sorts of things.&amp;nbsp; Regardless of whether its a best practices sort of thing and something we should embrace this will not be well received by many.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920928#M24537</guid>
      <dc:creator>qc4vmware</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-27T22:00:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920967#M24538</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5568455"&gt;@justaregulardud&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;here is the sample screenshot&lt;BR /&gt;Add this to your Project&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Ankush11s_1-1658983318141.png" style="width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/96449iF5F4C95F572AE2A2/image-size/medium/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="Ankush11s_1-1658983318141.png" alt="Ankush11s_1-1658983318141.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;and in Cloud template Yaml you give this .&lt;BR /&gt;name: ${self.resourceName}&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:43:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2920967#M24538</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ankush11s</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-28T04:43:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2921484#M24548</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5545451"&gt;@Ankush11s&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;this still won't work for us as it forces adding the numbers at the end.&amp;nbsp; So far as I know with the new naming systems it always forces a numerical value which we've never enforced in our environment.&amp;nbsp; If we want to make things unique we have other ways of doing so and we will generate a uuid or something along those lines.&amp;nbsp; The fact that this is forced is a bug in my opinion.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:40:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2921484#M24548</guid>
      <dc:creator>qc4vmware</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-30T06:40:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2921503#M24550</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I shared solution considering your thread which says you do not want to have MCM##&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/191124"&gt;@qc4vmware&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;If you do not want any number in last and want custom name based on business logic , you need to use subscription&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;and generate the business logic in ABX or vro workflow .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Have a look at below for reference.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://vmwarecode.com/2021/05/21/how-to-change-the-ip-address-and-rename-of-vm-in-vra-8/" target="_blank"&gt;https://vmwarecode.com/2021/05/21/how-to-change-the-ip-address-and-rename-of-vm-in-vra-8/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2022 12:06:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2921503#M24550</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ankush11s</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-30T12:06:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: remove appending -mcm####-#####</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2924003#M24616</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you for the information on overriding the resource naming template.&amp;nbsp; My opinion is that VMware introduced a bug in the way this was implemented.&amp;nbsp; I'm a decent vRA / vRO user and it is not a problem to implement this as an extendibility step but I find it confusing to operations staff and often to VMware support folk when we override this kind of out of the box feature.&amp;nbsp; It was one less thing I had to use extensibility for... until now.&amp;nbsp; We did something similar to this in vRA 6/7 lines of products and hit some bugs with race conditions related to some steps having run with the automatically generated name and the desired final name not getting applied until a bit later down the line.&amp;nbsp; Hopefully we will not run into any similar issues in vRA 8.&amp;nbsp; I don't think so judging by how things have been flowing thus far but it just seems unnecessary&amp;nbsp; to support this naming convention... especially since it has worked just fine until now.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:34:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Automation-Tools/remove-appending-mcm/m-p/2924003#M24616</guid>
      <dc:creator>qc4vmware</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-15T22:34:47Z</dc:date>
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