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On 21 May 2015 at 10:01, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> I note that we use instance.name to lookup the libvirt domain a bunch
> in the driver. I'm wondering why we don't just use instance.uuid all
> the time -- the code for that already exists. Is there a good reason
> to not move to always using the uuid?
>
> I ask because instance.name is not guaranteed to be unique depending
> on how weird the nova deployment is.

I don't know. I know that we had issues with nova-baremetal and around
the start of Ironic and IIRC moved to uuids everywhere as a result.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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HP Converged Cloud