Just for curiosity sake, This morning I have decided to see how vRA managed machines behave when I rename corresponding datastore name.
Let’s say I have a vSphere cluster being used as Compute Resource in vRA, and this cluster is being backed by a datastore named ‘datastore1’, and there are set of VMs residing on this datastore and are being managed by vRA 7.2, obviously in this case there’s a reservation in place which has got ‘datastore1’ selected as storage path.
Now, as I have just renamed datastore1 to a new name ‘NewDatastore1’ and triggered manual Inventory Data Collection. if I check back in reservation, the storage path name has been changed as per new name of the datastore.
and the corresponding database entries got updated without throwing any errors, which proves that rename of the datastore even if it is being used as StoragePath in vRA gets handled by quite well by vRA. a Simple data collection updates relevant entries.
