diff --git a/apis/vcloud/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadata.java b/apis/vcloud/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadata.java
index 9cc7cccdc6..ba998b2391 100644
--- a/apis/vcloud/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadata.java
+++ b/apis/vcloud/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadata.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import static com.google.common.collect.Iterables.filter;
 import static org.jclouds.compute.util.ComputeServiceUtils.parseGroupFromName;
 import static org.jclouds.vcloud.compute.util.VCloudComputeUtils.getCredentialsFrom;
 import static org.jclouds.vcloud.compute.util.VCloudComputeUtils.getIpsFromVApp;
-import static org.jclouds.vcloud.compute.util.VCloudComputeUtils.getVirtualSystemIdentifierOfFirstVMIn;
 import static org.jclouds.vcloud.compute.util.VCloudComputeUtils.toComputeOs;
 
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -73,8 +72,6 @@ public class VAppToNodeMetadata implements Function<VApp, NodeMetadata> {
       builder.ids(from.getHref().toASCIIString());
       builder.uri(from.getHref());
       builder.name(from.getName());
-      // not guaranteed to be correct, but good chance
-      builder.hostname(getVirtualSystemIdentifierOfFirstVMIn(from));
       builder.location(findLocationForResourceInVDC.apply(from.getVDC()));
       builder.group(parseGroupFromName(from.getName()));
       builder.operatingSystem(toComputeOs(from, null));
diff --git a/apis/vcloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadataTest.java b/apis/vcloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadataTest.java
index 0ca83622c3..d433e7f3af 100644
--- a/apis/vcloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadataTest.java
+++ b/apis/vcloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/compute/functions/VAppToNodeMetadataTest.java
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ public class VAppToNodeMetadataTest {
       VAppToNodeMetadata converter = injector.getInstance(VAppToNodeMetadata.class);
       NodeMetadata node = converter.apply(result);
       assertEquals(node.getLocation(), location);
-      assertEquals(node.getHostname(), "my-app");
       assertEquals(node.getPrivateAddresses(), ImmutableSet.of("172.16.7.230"));
       assertEquals(node.getPublicAddresses(), ImmutableSet.of());
    }
@@ -136,7 +135,6 @@ public class VAppToNodeMetadataTest {
       VAppToNodeMetadata converter = injector.getInstance(VAppToNodeMetadata.class);
       NodeMetadata node = converter.apply(result);
       assertEquals(node.getLocation(), location);
-      assertEquals(node.getHostname(), "Centos-5.5_x64");
       assertEquals(node.getPrivateAddresses(), ImmutableSet.of());
       assertEquals(node.getPublicAddresses(), ImmutableSet.of());
    }
@@ -151,7 +149,6 @@ public class VAppToNodeMetadataTest {
       VApp result = factory.create(injector.getInstance(VAppHandler.class)).parse(is);
       VAppToNodeMetadata converter = injector.getInstance(VAppToNodeMetadata.class);
       NodeMetadata node = converter.apply(result);
-      assertEquals(node.getHostname(), "");
       assertEquals(node.getLocation(), location);
    }
 }
diff --git a/providers/rimuhosting/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rimuhosting/miro/compute/functions/ServerToNodeMetadata.java b/providers/rimuhosting/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rimuhosting/miro/compute/functions/ServerToNodeMetadata.java
index 56b874f79e..8952029c5b 100644
--- a/providers/rimuhosting/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rimuhosting/miro/compute/functions/ServerToNodeMetadata.java
+++ b/providers/rimuhosting/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rimuhosting/miro/compute/functions/ServerToNodeMetadata.java
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ public class ServerToNodeMetadata implements Function<Server, NodeMetadata> {
       NodeMetadataBuilder builder = new NodeMetadataBuilder();
       builder.ids(from.getId() + "");
       builder.name(from.getName());
+      builder.hostname(from.getName());
       Location location = findLocationWithId(from.getLocation().getId());
       builder.location(location);
       builder.group(parseGroupFromName(from.getName()));
diff --git a/providers/stratogen-vcloud-mycloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/stratogen/vcloud/mycloud/compute/StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest.java b/providers/stratogen-vcloud-mycloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/stratogen/vcloud/mycloud/compute/StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest.java
index 16ad0f7f92..4ed148cc45 100644
--- a/providers/stratogen-vcloud-mycloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/stratogen/vcloud/mycloud/compute/StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest.java
+++ b/providers/stratogen-vcloud-mycloud/src/test/java/org/jclouds/stratogen/vcloud/mycloud/compute/StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest.java
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ package org.jclouds.stratogen.vcloud.mycloud.compute;
 import static org.jclouds.compute.util.ComputeServiceUtils.getCores;
 import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
 
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.ExecResponse;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.Image;
+import org.jclouds.compute.domain.NodeMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.OsFamily;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.Template;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.TemplateBuilder;
@@ -38,7 +40,8 @@ import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 public class StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest extends VCloudComputeServiceLiveTest {
    public StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest() {
       provider = "stratogen-vcloud-mycloud";
-      // vcloud requires instantiate before deploy, which takes longer than 30 seconds
+      // vcloud requires instantiate before deploy, which takes longer than 30
+      // seconds
       nonBlockDurationSeconds = 300;
    }
 
@@ -67,4 +70,8 @@ public class StratoGenVCloudMyCloudComputeServiceLiveTest extends VCloudComputeS
       return template;
    }
 
+   protected void checkResponseEqualsHostname(ExecResponse execResponse, NodeMetadata node1) {
+      // hostname is not predictable based on node metadata
+      assert execResponse.getOutput().trim().equals("(none)");
+   }
 }