Descriptions of the VMs replaced during the migration from Ivanchuk to Radjabov

[flealf]

Hi,

I migrated my version from Ivanchuk to Radjabov, and everything worked fine, except that the descriptions I had were replaced by the notes from the VM in vCenter.

The tests I performed are as follows:

1. I created a new VM and added my custom description.

2. When I checked in ManageIQ, it was overwritten with:

3. I went into vCenter, changed the description

5. And I saw that the change was reflected in ManageIQ.

5. I edited the description from ManageIQ

6. But it was not replaced in the vCenter notes.

My concern is that I had maintained those descriptions for a long time, but now I’ve lost them.
Is there any way to prevent the descriptions from being replaced if they are modified from vCenter, and keep them in ManageIQ (as it used to work in Ivanchuk)?

Regards.

[kbrock]

vCenter is the system of record/the definitive source of all data.
If the descriptions do not match, then it is hard to know whether it was modified in manageiq or modified in vCenter. But since vCenter has a higher priority, it makes sense that this will be overwritten.

When someone wants to modify the description on a Vm, we send that to vCenter, where it is changed and then propagated to us. Again, they are the system of record. So for a conflict, they win.

I understand your request, just trying to highlight the logic in place. Hopefully understanding this will help us figure out a way to implement what you want.

@agrare Did I describe this correctly?
Do we currently sent description changes to vCenter?

[flealf]

Thanks,

I understand, but when I was using the Ivanchuk version, it did save the descriptions when creating the VM (in ManageIQ), but now it doesn’t even do that — it just saves a generic description (MIQ GUID=XXXXXX), and then I have to edit it again to change it.

[flealf]

Is there a way to configure ManageIQ so that it does not update the descriptions from vCenter?
This is because there’s another team that also accesses vCenter and might change the VM “notes,” which would overwrite my “descriptions.”

[agrare]

Hey @flealf there isn't a configuration option to control this behavior.

[Fryguy]

Opened ManageIQ/manageiq-providers-vmware#955