Investigate using IDs in URLs for hosts and VMs

[chrisma]

Currently, names are used in the routes for VMs and hosts, i.e. the constraints: { id: /.*/ } snippets.

This also means all vms are under /vms/vm.

Does vSphere return IDs that could be used instead?

[mat156]

vsphere cli output:

Name                    : creation-test
PowerState              : PoweredOn
Notes                   :
Guest                   : creation-test:
NumCpu                  : 1
CoresPerSocket          : 1
MemoryMB                : 1024
MemoryGB                : 1
VMHostId                : HostSystem-host-82
VMHost                  : ibmesx14.eaalab.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
VApp                    :
FolderId                : Folder-group-v117
Folder                  : Pending archivings
ResourcePoolId          : ResourcePool-resgroup-141
ResourcePool            : Resources
HARestartPriority       : ClusterRestartPriority
HAIsolationResponse     : AsSpecifiedByCluster
DrsAutomationLevel      : AsSpecifiedByCluster
VMSwapfilePolicy        : Inherit
VMResourceConfiguration : CpuShares:Normal/1000 MemShares:Normal/10240
Version                 : v13
PersistentId            : 502ccc43-b097-680e-5256-699a33033d57
GuestId                 : otherGuest
UsedSpaceGB             : 1,1075638402253389358520507812
ProvisionedSpaceGB      : 2,1075643049553036689758300781
DatastoreIdList         : {Datastore-datastore-28}
ExtensionData           : VMware.Vim.VirtualMachine
CustomFields            : {[password, ]}
Id                      : VirtualMachine-vm-407
Uid                     : /VIServer=swt.local\administrator@vcsa-swt.eaalab.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:443/VirtualMachine=Virtu
                          alMachine-vm-407/
Client                  : VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.VimClient