# AWX VMware Inventory Problems

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-vmware-inventory-problems/30566>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** vmware, awx\
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-vmware-inventory-problems/30566 "2019-06-13T15:55:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Sam2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sam2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sam2)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-vmware-inventory-problems/30566/1 "2019-06-13T15:55:10Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am using AWX vCenter plugin to get list of hosts in vCenter, and I am facing two issues:

1- it takes like 7 hours to complete the Sync  
2- The hostname is: VM NAME + UUID and it is not flying for me because it is almost impossible to predict what UUID can be so I have always to define the hosts with \* in the playbook: vm\_hostname\*

In addition I can’t use Keberos directly to connect to the VM because the name of the host in inventory doesn’t match FQDN. I can’t also use hostvars to get the var of a host as I don’t know what the hostname will be inside the inventory.

Can I change the naming convention for hosts in vCenter inventory so it contains only the VM name only ?

If anyone can give me a hint about the speed also, so it will be great 🙂

Thanks