How to rename a datastore via command during automatic installation

[Vampire]

Hi, during automatic installation of my esx servers and post exec skript I wan't to rename the local datastore of esx 3.5. I tried to find a solution here in the communities and also tried the following commands

• vimsh -n -e "/hostsvc/datastore/rename oldname newname"

• vmware-vim-cmd hostsvc/datastore/rename oldname newname"

but nothing happens when I use these commands and I get no error message.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong and how I can rename local datastores via command line?

Thankx

Frank

[espi3030]

It's been a while since I've done this, you could try:

ln -sf `readlink -f /vmfs/volumes/<storagename>` /vmfs/volumes/$HOSTNAME-Local

I believe this will only work on a host that has not yet been to vCenter.

Hope this helps!

Message was edited by: espi3030

[atbnet]

I dont know if this can be dont during the install process. You would need to now the name to start with but at that point it wont be generated. I you look when it first boots I think thats when the VMFS is created in a run_once script. Maybe you coudl find that and edit it?

It can be done in the service console as so...

ls -laF /vmfs/volumes/

Note down the id of the volume linked to the datastore you want to rename (e.g. /vmfs/volumes/477c7-634968-3c1a-001...).

rm -rf /vmfs/volumes/oldname

ln -s /vmfs/volumes/477c7-634968-3c1a-001... /vmfs/volumes/newname

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More info if needed... http://www.vmadmin.co.uk/resources/35-esxserver/52-vmfsdatastore

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[lamw · Accepted solution]

We have a set of post-scripts that are executed upon the first reboot after the build, by default the local datastore should be named storage1

You can do the following:

ln -sf $(readlink -f /vmfs/volumes/storage1)  /vmfs/volumes/$(hostname -s)-local-storage

or to whatever naming convention you would like

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