Change name of a datastore?

[jaycrumpgp]

Hi,

Is there any way to change the display name of an NFS datastore that I have 8 nodes of a cluster connected to?  This is for aesthetic reasons only - naming convention uniformity.  Just curious if I renamed the datastore in Datastore View in vSphere VCenter, does that change the display name for every host?  Or do I need to change the display name at every host in 'Hosts and Clusters' view.  Just curious if I can do this while VMs are running with no adverse affects....or will I need to literally shut down all VMs to do this.

Thanks in advance.

[NickMarshall9 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can change the name of Datastores (NFS, iSCSI, FC etc) at any time without any adverse affects.

Just right click, rename to your hearts content!

Cheers,

[jaycrumpgp]

Thank for that, Nick.  Much better scenario than a full power-down!  Marking as answer.