ESXi

I have a VSphere 4.1 ESXi 4.1 host that I need to change the hostname. So I go into VSphere, highlight the host, put into maint mode, goto configuraton, DNS and Routing, make the new hostname change and reboot, bring it out of maint mode and the hostname on the console of the ESXi host says the NEW hostname, in DNS & Routing it says the NEW hostname,  but on the left in Hosts & Clusters view, I still see the OLD hostname...... I try to add the new hostname and it says it already exists.  Is there something I missed >??>

John

the name gets remember in the vcenter DB. one of the way is to remove it and add again to the vcenter.

Thanks - removing then adding the host did the trick!

john

happy to see that it works at your end, and thanks for the points too :smileyhappy:

you need to re-register your host to make it see the new name.