VM ids - Are they ever reused?

[ccowan8]

Under normal conditions within the vcdb, is it ever possible for a vm_id to be reallocated to a new VM, after the original has been deleted?

[Anjani_Kumar]

if you are talking about the VM UUID then yes it reassigned sometimes an create conflict as well. Here is an document for that. hope it helps.vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center

[ccowan8]

I was actually referring to the vm_id (like found in the VPX_EVENT table).    It doesn't appear to be a uuid, just a plain old integer or number. 

Seems to start at 1 and just keep incrementing.