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Vvol filenames when creating disks (or after)

Hi,

We have existing VM's with harddisks on VMFS stores. We would like to add some disks that are shared between two VMs, and are testing Vvol. Basically we keep the OS-disks on VMFS datastores, and create new disks located on the Vvols. However, when adding new disks the disk-name is automatically name "VMname_01.." as usual. This applies to the storage structure in vCenter and also in the storage (Dell EMC Unity). I've succesfully renamed the files in vCenter and detached/reattached the disks which then reflects the correct names. But the name in the storage-unit is still "VMname_01..." etc.

I suspect the name in vCenter storage browser is only a display-name, which leaves the "underlaying" original diskname. This is confusing, especially when logging into the storage since Vvol01 and Vvol02 contains two identical names (allthough the id's are different).

Is there any way to;
a.) Create the harddisk with a custom name at once? (kind of like we could create RDM disks from cli)?
b.) Rename the disk-files after creation, but also reflect the name in the storage?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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