Why are disk aliases are recycled in RHEV webadmin portal?
Issue
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If I create take a VM with three disks (alises
<vm_name>_Disk1,<vm_name>_Disk2,<vm_name>_Disk3), delete the second disk and then try to add a new disk the suggested alias for the new disk is<vm_name>_Disk3, which is a duplicate of an already existing virtual disk alias.- Create a VM with three virtual disks (VM name:
example, disks aliases:example_Disk1,example_Disk2,example_Disk3). - Delete the second virtual disk (
example_Disk2is deleted, remaining disks have aliasesexample_Disk1andexample_Disk3). - Add a new virtual disk: suggested alias for the new virtual disk is
example_Disk3which duplicates an existing virtual disk alias.
- Create a VM with three virtual disks (VM name:
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Why does RHEV re-use existing virtual disk aliases when suggesting an alias for a new virtual disk?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.4
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