Inconsistent Virtual Machine folders after renaming a machine.

2010 May 25
by Paul McSharry

When a virtual machine is renamed ,  the underlying datastore folder is unchanged.    This can cause confusion in various scenarios.

To overcome this quickly and easily,  simply migrate the virtual machine datastore using storage vmotion.  During the process the virtual machine files are renamed automatically.

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