Creating an Org VDC network containing a "/" omits some characters in NSX-T after the "/"

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• Creating an Org VDC network containing a "/" omits some characters after the "/"
• When creating a network in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) and if network name contains "/" character, in NSX the segment name everything after "/" is removed
  • E.g. Org VDC Network name: segment/1234567 would be saved as segment/12345-########-####-####-####-############ in NSX-T Segment
• In VCD, the name remains correct and nothing is omitted

Environment

• VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1
• NSX-T 4.2.3

Cause

This is expected by design. The reason being, vCenter would need to escape the sequence characters and escaped characters consume 2 bytes instead of 1 in vCenter. 
Hence, two characters are truncated for every escape character in the naming. 

Resolution

As a workaround, add two random characters at end of network name, as shown below:

• Created vdc network with name : segment/1234567xx
• VCD sends a request to NSX-T with: "display_name":"segment/1234567-########-####-####-####-############"