vmware serialnumber input sanitation about netbox-ssot

[TaLoN1x]

yes, I will dive deeper in this in a few days.

[bl4ko]

Yeah I aggree with this issue, but the problem is how netbox organizes objects. If you don't map virtual appliances that represent hosts to devices, then you lose useful netbox relation:

• VMs can only be assigned to device (can't be to another vm), so lets say we have host that is virtualized. We add it as an vm but then we can't connect other vms running on this host with it.

[TaLoN1x]

Virtual appliances are mostly Firewalls, Virtual Storage Devices, Virtual Switches, etc. This would not affect this functionality, in some cases would even enable the use of abstraction layer for capacity planning.

[bl4ko]

But you only have virtual machines object in netbox to represent virtual appliances. So would it make sense to create firewalls, virtual switches, etc. as virtual machines?

[TaLoN1x]

yes, but currently vsans, vswitches in vmware are being created as devices.

[bl4ko]

Would you be able to help me with this issue, e.g. provide some logic of how to implement this, and which devices to map to which virtualization appliances?