Hi, in our case we have a network DB were all VMs are registered. We just check if the name provided by the user don’t conflict. Belmiro On Feb 1, 2014, at 20:19 , Craig J <craig.jellick at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In our OpenStack environment, we have the need to enforce unique names for each VM. Long story short, the names need to be unique because of some other systems that we are integrating with. > > I think the best way to accomplish this is to write a custom piece of paste middleware and plug it into the nova api. I'm planning on basically overriding the name provide by the user with a name that we can guarantee to be unique. > > So, two questions: > 1. Does anyone have a similar piece of middleware they'd care to share? > 2. Are there any reasons this approach won't work? Any better approaches? > > > Thanks in advance, > Craig > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack