Datastore Name change

[markroe]

What are the implications of changing the name of a datastore with ESX 3.0.2.

Is this possible without losing data and what is the best approach to do this ?

[dalepa · Accepted solution]

We have done this several times... no problems yet...

What are the implications of changing the name of a

datastore with ESX 3.0.2.

Is this possible without losing data and what is the

best approach to do this ?

[acr]

Since VI3 this is a very straight forward process, simply right click and rename, all done..!!

[chani13]

I have done this many times in our Test Lab. Always works.. No problem so far...

[bertdb]

as long as you never registered VMs manually from the CLI (most people don't), there's no problem renaming a datastore. Perfectly supported.

[BUGCHK]

It does not matter, because you must not try to use the 'friedly datastore name' in the path to the .vmx[/b] file anyway.

VMKB2122 - vmware-cmd Doesn't Recognize Symbolic Links to VMFS3 Volumes[/url]

[bertdb]

if you know what you're doing, it doesn't matter, I agree. But not everybody knows exactly what they're doing

[alhamad]

No problem.

[markroe]

thanks