We need more thoughts here from others, there are two different approaches on the table and more opinions are welcomed. If there are API consumers on this list then your view is more then welcomed. As someone who has used the API for a multi tenancy situation I *know*
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 04:36:53AM -0400, Simon Grinberg wrote: that the unique VM name contraint is very limiting. We ended up restorting to giving all VMs a vmSOMEHASH name and storing the actual names our customers wanted in the description field. This meant trading in the ability to search for VM names but gave us the freedom we needed. Now I haven't used the API with disks but I know our users generally don't care about the names their drives have. However, I realise that when you have detached disks they should be recognizable but can't you enforce that when they're being detached? And with shared disks it might be sufficient to show 'shared with VM X, Y and Z'.