Similar to my blog post on character limits for the different types of vSphere Inventory Objects, here is a quick look on some VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Objects and their respective character limits.
While looking into this topic, I was pleasantly surprised to find that some of the rename workflows in SDDC Manager UI includes an informational icon that provides the naming constraints in addition to the character limit. I was able to test and verify the character limits by using a combination of the SDDC Manager UI and API and below were my findings as of the VCF 5.1 release.
Object | Character Limit Minimum | Character Limit Maximum |
---|---|---|
Management Domain | 3 | 20* |
Workload Domain | 3 | 20* |
Network Pool | 3 | 40 |
Organization Name | 3 | 20* |
Edge Cluster | 1 | 80 |
Note: For character limit maximums with *, I have observed with VCF 5.1 that I could use the SDDC Manager UI/API to actually rename an object that goes up to 21 characters. I am not sure if this is a documentation or product gap but I have already filed an internal bug to get this clarified.