> > > Aryeh, to your point, OpenStack effectively _is_, the provisioning system. > Our current use case is providing engineers with a self service portal for > spinning up VMs on which they can do development work. So, the workflow is > user -> UI -> nova API. But when a VM is spun up, we still want to > integrate with existing systems such as Active Directory (via > PBIS/Likewise). Long term, we have grander plans for making OpenStack the > provisioning system for our integration and production environments and > we'll probably need to build more ellaborate smarts into it. > >> >> > One solution might (I have not verified if instance UUID's are guarnteed to be globally unique) is base the name on the UUID (depending on how much of a "gibberish" name your users would tolerate)
-- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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