[chef-dev] Re: Knife-vsphere vs powetCLI

[Anna Redding < >]

Thanks for letting me know. 

What version of  the following are you using? 
     - vCenter ; ESXi
     - Chef server ;  Chef client
     - Ruby ;  knife-vsphere gem



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On Apr 9, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Ian Delahorne 
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>> 1). When cloning a VM using knife-vsphere , I cannot use a '-' as part of 
>> the VM name. This works with no problem using powerCLI.
>> 
>> Note:   I had to invoke a 'bandaid' to get past this with knife-vsphere. 
>> Bandaid was to remove '-' from the vm hostname at the vsphere level. This 
>> bandaid is not 'desired' but is easily reverted with the manual effort,  
>> post-buildout, of going through and adding the '-' back to the hostname 
>> through the vcenter interface.
>> Note2:  It's worth mentioning that the process of bootstrapping the vm and 
>> running cookbooks/recipes with VM names that contain '-' works just fine.
> 
> FWIW I have never had this issue in my environment with knife-vsphere
> when cloning templates and VMs. In fact 90% of our VM names contain a
> '-'.
> 
> //ian