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chamindak_11539
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Jun 19, 2014

How to rename a vcmp guest?

Hello, I am in a situation where I need to change the guestname of a vCMP guest. Changing the hostname of the guest can be done easily. However changing the guestname appears tricky. I can see the g...
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mkratochvil
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Apr 13, 2018

I will rephrase the question, to understand it better: After I create a vCMP guest initially, its config is in hosts's bigip.conf and also in guest's bigip_base.conf. Which one of these has priority? What will happen if I simply change the device name on the guest? Will I have conflicting configs between the guest and the host? If I reboot the host, will revert the gust name back to the old one?

 

Thanks for any advice.