diff --git a/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml b/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
index 0a3a146236..b6e3ecdb78 100644
--- a/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
+++ b/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
@@ -5769,10 +5769,9 @@ servers_multiple_create_name:
   description: |
     A base name for creating unique names during multiple create. A
     unique string will be appended to the end of this base name for
-    every server created. The templete is defined in
-    ``multi_instance_display_name_template`` option in the configuration file.
-    The server names become ``{name}-1``, ``{name}-2``, ``{name}-3``, ...
-    by default.
+    every server created.
+    The server names become ``{name}-1``, ``{name}-2``, ``{name}-3``,
+    etc.
 service:
   description: |
     Object representing a compute service.
diff --git a/nova/compute/api.py b/nova/compute/api.py
index f66d69f8a0..b71b9bddc9 100644
--- a/nova/compute/api.py
+++ b/nova/compute/api.py
@@ -1411,13 +1411,6 @@ class API(base.Base):
             instance.display_name = display_name
 
         if hostname is None and num_instances == 1:
-            # NOTE(russellb) In the multi-instance case, we're going to
-            # overwrite the display_name using the
-            # multi_instance_display_name_template.  We need the default
-            # display_name set so that it can be used in the template, though.
-            # Only set the hostname here if we're only creating one instance.
-            # Otherwise, it will be built after the template based
-            # display_name.
             hostname = display_name
             default_hostname = self._default_host_name(instance.uuid)
             instance.hostname = utils.sanitize_hostname(hostname,