I've got a bunch of new Red Hat 8 systems running open-vm-tools. As part of a migration from RHEL6 to RHEL8, we have created new RHEL8 systems with the same names as the old RHEL6 systems and appended "-new" to their names. The IP addresses, host names, VLAN, etc are different on the RHEL8 systems.
I know how to rename the new systems in VCenter but I have not been able to find out if it's possible to rename the OS files as well. I know I could use open-vm-tools with Anisible to clone the RHEL8 systems to *yet again new* systems with the proper names, ips, etc, but is there a way to tell open-vm-tools to re-run the configuraition? I've run the Ansible module vmware_guest and have successfully reconfigured the hardware but I've not found a way to reconfigure the underlying OS files w/o cloning the RHEL8 into new systems.
