Changing the name of the virtual machine and it's files

[r23733]

Hi,

 We have built a virtual machine recently on ESXi 4.1 host.  We have made some mistake while giving the name for virtual machine. So I need help to change the name of the VM and its files  VMDKs, flat-VMDKs and VMX while the virtual machine is up and running.

Could someone please provide the solution for this?

[Bart_Heungens]

Hi,

First rename the VM inside the vSphere GUI by clicking the right mouse button and select rename. This will nog change the directory nehind the VM...

However if you do a storage migration (storage vMotion) the destination directory will be the new name and all files will be renamed...

Kr,

Bart

[Jags_21 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Only option is to do svmotion, before you start the svmotion, rename the VM by right clicking on the VM which is to be renamed and later do a svmotion this will change all the names related to the VM.

Note: svmotion or cold migration only changes the names of the virtual machine files when the destination datastore is different from the original.

Thanks,

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[r23733]

Thanks, that solved the issue.

[r23733]

Thanks for your solution.