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Nice article Andrew. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Andrew. Appreciate it.
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I've been upgrading VM servers from 2003 to 2012 R2. &nbsp;After the new server is built, I want to use the same host name as the old server. &nbsp;After I have the new machine changed to the old host name, how do I change the name of the .vmdk file. &nbsp;I want the new disk name to be the same as the host name. &nbsp;Right now the disk is still the name of the new VM host name I created. &nbsp;Ex. Host Name: &nbsp;server1, Disk name: &nbsp;server2.vmdk . &nbsp;Thanks in advance.
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Hi,

I've been upgrading VM servers from 2003 to 2012 R2.  After the new server is built, I want to use the same host name as the old server.  After I have the new machine changed to the old host name, how do I change the name of the .vmdk file.  I want the new disk name to be the same as the host name.  Right now the disk is still the name of the new VM host name I created.  Ex. Host Name:  server1, Disk name:  server2.vmdk .  Thanks in advance.

VMware 5.5 - How to rename virtual disks .vmdk

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.