As part of an SCCM deployment we are looking into ways of automating VMware View desktops.
One challenge I am trying to solve is how to ensure consistent naming between the VM object and the guest OS. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any easy way of retrieving this directly - aparently the VMware tools daemon is not allowed to access the real metadata about a VM, only the 'guestinfo' variables.
And guestinfo variables must be set in the .VMX file, and will probably be copied along with everything else when cloning a template, making them useless for determining the displayname of a VM.
Has anyone found a direct way of retrieving this info yet, or do we need to correlate vCenter information with in-guest info and piece together which VM a given object is..?