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<br></div><div>Aryeh, to your point, OpenStack effectively _is_, the provisioning system. Our current use case is providing engineers with a self service portal for spinning up VMs on which they can do development work. So, the workflow is user -> UI -> nova API. But when a VM is spun up, we still want to integrate with existing systems such as Active Directory (via PBIS/Likewise). Long term, we have grander plans for making OpenStack the provisioning system for our integration and production environments and we'll probably need to build more ellaborate smarts into it.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One solution might (I have not verified if instance UUID's are guarnteed to be globally unique) is base the name on the UUID (depending on how much of a "gibberish" name your users would tolerate)<br clear="all">
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, <a href="http://www.PetiteCloud.org" target="_blank">http://www.PetiteCloud.org</a><br></div>
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