Github user bhaisaab commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1165#discussion_r47469908 --- Diff: plugins/hypervisors/vmware/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/resource/VmwareResource.java --- @@ -1889,11 +1889,20 @@ int getReservedCpuMHZ(VirtualMachineTO vmSpec) { // Pair<internal CS name, vCenter display name> private Pair<String, String> composeVmNames(VirtualMachineTO vmSpec) { - String vmInternalCSName = vmSpec.getName(); - String vmNameOnVcenter = vmSpec.getName(); - if (_instanceNameFlag && vmSpec.getHostName() != null) { - vmNameOnVcenter = vmSpec.getHostName(); + + String vmInternalCSName = null; + String vmNameOnVcenter = null; + if(vmSpec != null) + { + vmInternalCSName = vmNameOnVcenter = vmSpec.getName(); + if (_instanceNameFlag == true) { + String[] tokens = vmInternalCSName.split("-"); + assert (tokens.length >= 3); // vmInternalCSName has format i-x-y-<instance.name> + vmNameOnVcenter = String.format("%s-%s-%s-%s", tokens[0], tokens[1], tokens[2], vmSpec.getHostName()); --- End diff -- Do something like; String hostString = vmSpec.getHostName(); if (hostString == null) { hostString = // get value from the vm suffix global setting (by default "VM"); }
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