Change the name of files and folders in data warehouses

Is it safe while a virtual machine is running to change the name of the VMDK files and folders in a data store?

I discovered that a VMS VMDK files have a different name for the virtual machine itself, then someone changed the name of the virtual machine after you have created the records

I had to do it a few times, will try to document the process that I follow.  If you have many warehouses of data, then make a note of what data store, the machine is in.  The next step is to unregister the virtual machine from vCenter / ESXi

Then, you need to enable SSH on your ESXi host

Use Putty or something similar for you connect to the ESXi host

Run the following commands (in italics)

cd vmfs/volumes / that is, if the data store that contains the virtual computer is named datastore1 then you would run cd/vmfs/volumes/datastore1

Then run ls to verify that the virtual machine file is here

Rename the folder by using mv

Change to the folder with cd

Rename the nvram, vmsd, vmx and running again is to say the mv

MV oldname.nvram newname.nvram

MV oldname.vmsd newname.vmsd

MV oldname.vmx newname.vmx

MV 1234.hlog - oldname newname - 1234.hlog

Rename the vmdk with vmkfstools EI oldname.vmdk newname.vmdk

Edit the vmx with vi newname.vmx

Replace references to oldname to newname in this file

Register the virtual machine with the ESXi server and it should be OK

This link gives more details and other methods VMware KB: rename a virtual machine and VMware ESXi and ESX records

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