Creating folders with duplicates names on vCenters

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• Customer might have folders have duplicate names. 
• There could be monitoring systems, that could pick up these folder names as duplicate and alert the Customer 

Environment

vSphere 7

vSphere 8

Cause

• vSphere by default does not allow users to create duplicate folder names. vSphere by default does not allow duplicate names on other object types as well.
• However it can so happen that we might observe some folders have duplicate names. 
• This is only achievable, if these folders with are subfolders on a who's root folder object names are unique. 
  • For example: Lets take there are two folders named Site_1 and Site_2. These folder can have subfolders of the same name. 

Datacenter

|   |

| Site_1

|          |Hosts_list 

|

| |Site_2 

|          |Hosts_list

• As we can see the subfolders on the root folders have the same/duplicate folder names as Hosts_list. 

Resolution

• This is an expected and allowed as the folders with duplicate names are present on the root folders with unique names and they hence the hierarchy path of a folder will not be duplicate for the endpoint object.