This is a problem with the CLI, the parameter is not read and instead an empty string is used. The same situation happens with sr-introduce. It should be a very quick fix, I don't know why it was done since the beginning. I've opened the PRs upstream: https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/pull/7066 https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/pull/7067 psafont opened this pull request in xapi-project/xen-api open xapi-cli-server: set name description for SRs, when given #7066 psafont opened this pull request in xapi-project/xen-api open xapi-cli-server: set name description for SRs, when given (8.3) #7067