Why are disk aliases are recycled in RHEV webadmin portal?
Issue
-
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_Disk2
is deleted, remaining disks have aliasesexample_Disk1
andexample_Disk3
). - Add a new virtual disk: suggested alias for the new virtual disk is
example_Disk3
which duplicates an existing virtual disk alias.
- Create a VM with three virtual disks (VM name:
-
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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