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    <title>topic Re: Storage:  How do  you fix two folders controlling one VM? in ESXi Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks Max - can you provide and specifics on #4.&amp;nbsp; Still new to the cli environment&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:08:33 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>StillLearning20</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-02-27T13:08:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Storage:  How do  you fix two folders controlling one VM?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Storage-How-do-you-fix-two-folders-controlling-one-VM/m-p/1753028#M166812</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just an example:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had a VM named "Johnson" that I wanted to rename "Jones".&amp;nbsp; I followed the KB instructions and the rename went smooth, but ran into trouble when I ran the "registervm" command.&amp;nbsp; Short story is that the registervm cammand kept failing until I restarted the esxi host, then it completed.&amp;nbsp; However, it created an Orphan VM, after trying to correct this with another KB I know have 2 folders controlling the "Jones" VM.&amp;nbsp; One labeled "Jones" and one labeled "Jones_1"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Looking for the best way to combined them into folder without crashing the vm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>StillLearning20</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-26T21:53:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Storage:  How do  you fix two folders controlling one VM?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Storage-How-do-you-fix-two-folders-controlling-one-VM/m-p/1753029#M166813</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If i understood correctly&amp;nbsp; you want only to change the Name of the Vm?.&amp;nbsp; So yes theire are some poss.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1:&amp;nbsp; unregister&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2: change the Folder&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3: change all files &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4: change also the Pointerfile for the disk,....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;5: register again&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Or you change only the Displayname and making Storage Migration to other Storage and back again. through the SVM Process the Filesystem struktur will automaticly fitted.&amp;nbsp; (sure only good if you have the poss. to move and once the Disk is not tooo big &amp;gt; duration time etc,...)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So if you have orphan &amp;gt; then you're changes didn't worked or you missed a change. important is to change the pointer file.&amp;nbsp; &amp;gt; that is often a Part which is forgotten.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;PS:&amp;nbsp; Please delete Snapshots before doing that &lt;img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /&gt; it's better.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Best regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Max&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:47:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Madmax01</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-26T22:47:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Storage:  How do  you fix two folders controlling one VM?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Storage-How-do-you-fix-two-folders-controlling-one-VM/m-p/1753030#M166814</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks Max - can you provide and specifics on #4.&amp;nbsp; Still new to the cli environment&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:08:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>StillLearning20</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-27T13:08:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Storage:  How do  you fix two folders controlling one VM?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Storage-How-do-you-fix-two-folders-controlling-one-VM/m-p/1753031#M166815</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i found a nice KB:&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;amp;externalId=1002491" title="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;amp;externalId=1002491"&gt;http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;amp;externalId=1002491&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;theire you see the infos about &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Virtual disk descriptor. In the following example: &lt;CODE style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;examplevm.vmdk&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Virtual disk extent. In the following example: &lt;CODE style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;examplevm-flat.vmdk&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i personally didn't knewed that it's possible to change the vDisk name&amp;nbsp; with "&lt;SPAN style="color: #666666; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"&gt;vmkfstools -E&lt;/SPAN&gt;"&amp;nbsp; &lt;img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;gt; this process seems to be also changing the Pointer info inside the Descriptor file&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So important is that everything is renamed to you're new Wished VM Name &lt;img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /&gt;. after that it should be no problem to register the VM again.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Best regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Max&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:43:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Madmax01</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-02-27T19:43:08Z</dc:date>
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