Renaming Virtual Disks

[haverer]

Hi

Is there anyway I can rename a VMDK file? When I browse to my datastore and try to rename I get the message:

At the moment, vSphere Client does not support the renaming of virtual disks as the machines that use this disk may loose access to the disku

[a_p_]

You can do this with e.g. vmkfstools -E examplevm.vmdk examplevm-renamed.vmdk

see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002491

Make sure you don't have any snapshots on the virtual disk when doing this.

André

[mittim12]

Check out this KB, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002491.

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[DSTAVERT]

You can use vmkfstools from the Tech Support Console (Alt + F1) or the rcli. vmkfstool ---renamevirtualdisk sourcedisk destinationdisk

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[MauroBonder]

In a SSH session type the following commands: cd /vmfs/volumes/STORAGENAME/VMNAME vmkfstools -E ./OLDNAME.vmdk ./NEWNAME.vmdk

after check disk name with vi in NEWNAME.vmdk

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