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Narendra_Babu
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Jan 07, 2015

Renaming VMdisk

Hi all,

 

We have to rename the VCMP guests in our viprions. Instead of recreating the guest completely, we are planning to detach the VM disk from old guest, rename the Vm disk (from /shared/vmdisks), create a new guest with the same Vmdisk.

 

Has anybody tested renaming Vmdisk & attaching it to a new guest.? Will it work or not.

 

Just want to know before proceeding with the change.

 

Thanks

 

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3 Replies

  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Jan 07, 2015
    i would say contact support, they can provide the definitive answer.
  • amolari's avatar
    amolari
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    Jan 08, 2015

    Not sure about the renaming. There is no tmsh command to do that. The same vmdisk can be spanned/synched between different slots. I guess you would run in troubles with a manual renaming from bash. As boneyard, I suggest opening a support case (maybe they have a procedure for that). Without the renaming thing, it's pretty straightforward.

     

  • Narendra_Babu's avatar
    Narendra_Babu
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    Jan 15, 2015

    Thanks guys. I have opened a case with F5. They suggested not to rename the vmdisk from bash shell as it may result in unexpected behaviour(tracked under ID 348502).

     

    Currently there is no way enabled in TMSH to rename vmdisk.

     

    So they suggested to recreate the guest.