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• User provided Display Name needs to be appended to the Internal Name (can be seen by vCenter/ESX/other hypervisors).
• Create a global setting that will enable this functionality, with default value to be false.
• This setting of user provided hostname is possible only when VM is instantiated (for the first time).
• Apply this feature to all supported hypervisors.

Feature Specifications and Architecture and Design description

New global parameter flag : vm.instancename.flag

Default : false

Behavior: If set to true, and the mgmt server restarted, all new guest VMs that are created with a display name value set to a valid string compliant with RFC 952, will have their instance names on the hypervisor platform in the form i-<userid><vmid><display_name>