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This means that Abiquo will not use the VM name to identify VMs in providers. If you use a template named “webserver” webserver, then the default VM name will be “webserver” webserver and when you deploy the VM, it will be named “webserver” webserver in the provider. The Abiquo API does not usually validate VM name that the user supplies and it will directly display provider errors. But for example, in the case of duplicate names in ESXi, when Abiquo catches a duplicate name exception, it appends a number to the VM name and retries the operation.
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Abiquo will store the provider ID when you configure or capture a VM, and remove it when you undeploy a VM. If you delete a VM from Abiquo without deleting it from the provider, then Abiquo will continue to store the provider ID. This will ensure that Abiquo will automatically recover the right VM if you import the VM with same provider ID again.
With the introduction of provdier provider ID as VM identifier, the abiquo.virtualmachine.namesperdc property is deprecated. The platform used this property for VM capture and DRaaS configurations.
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