How to rename a VM on ESX

[EdiB]

Guys,

I tried renaming a VM based on some instructions that I found on one of the posts but it failed.

Does anybody know the exact steps and which files need to be edited to rename a VM

Thnaks

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Have you tried the procedure here: ?

You can edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network and the run the command: service network restart

Message was edited by: Dave.Mishchenko

- sorry thought the question was about renaming the host.

[Santhosh_vmware]

Hi,

The best way would be to create identical VM and use the existing old VM's harddisk.

regards

santhosh

[OlivierTremolie]

Hi,

To rename a VM, there are 2 steps : delete from inventory your vm and rename on the ESX.

• You have to power off the VM.

• Delete from inventory the concerned VM. You have to do this because link between VC and the file will be lost.

• To rename on the ESX, you have to know where all files a stored. Connect you on the ESX server with ssh. Rename the files with the correct name, and, to be clean, rename the directory too.

• Edit vmx and vmdk files with vi to change name and path to vm's files.

• Once done, on VC, browse your LUN to find your vmx file and add it to inventory.

It's the only way I found to rename correctly a VM. It is not complicated

Olivier

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