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HHoell
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Full qualified VM names after vCenter 6 restart

Hello Community

after we installed VMware Tools on multiple VMs our VC Server crashed an was not available anymore.

We have restarted the system and now you can connect against it but some of the VMs are not named correctly like:

ds:///vmfs/volumes/12345678-12345678-ABCDE/foobar-it/foobar-it.vmx

instead of:

foobar-it

When you restart the hostd and vpxa service on each host the VMs change their names correctly but this only works until the next vCenter reboot.

Does anyone know this error?

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JonT
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I am seeing this as well. Have you tried this KB yet?

Virtual machines names appear as ds:///vmfs/volumes/datastore/vm_name (2146168) | VMware KB

Also I noticed this thread below having similar issues:

Re: VMs name displaying as the relative DS path in Inventory

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