This appendix lists the requirements for legal characters for the names and values of Geographic Edition entities.
This appendix contains the following sections:
Geographic Edition entity names consist of the following:
Host names
Cluster names, which must follow the naming requirements for host names
Partnership names
Protection group names
Custom heartbeat names
All names must comply with the following rules:
Must start with a letter
Must not exceed 255 characters
Can contain the following:
Upper and lowercase letters
Digits
Dashes (-), except as the last character of a host name or cluster name
Underscores (_), except in a host name or cluster name
For more information about host name requirements, see RFC 1123 at http://www.rfcs.org/.
The Geographic Edition entity values fall into two categories: property values and description values. Both types of values share the following rules:
Values must be in ASCII
The maximum length of a value is 4 megabytes minus 1, that is, 4,194,303 bytes
Values cannot contain a newline or a semicolon