{"id":602,"date":"2010-08-18T07:10:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vmdamentals.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2010-08-18T07:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:10:30","slug":"vsphere-4-1-and-virtual-disk-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"vSphere 4.1 and virtual disk names"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I just spotted something that had not occurred to me yet&#8230; A small new detail in vSphere 4.1 (or I just missed out on it previously)&#8230; VMware has had this &#8220;problem&#8221; for a long time: If you added a second virtual disk to a virtual machine on a datastore different from the location of the first virtual disk, vSphere used to name that new virtual disk the same as the base disk. Well not any more!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I noticed in vSphere 4.1 that this is no longer true. A second disk created on a separate datastore gets its name from the virtual machine (like it used to be), but with a trailing &#8220;_1&#8221; in the filename.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time backup vendors have been battling with this &#8220;issue&#8221; because the backup software ended up with two virtual disks that were both named the same&#8230; In a lot of environments that meant manual renaming and remounting second and third disks to VMs in order to get proper backups without having to guess which disk goes where.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing that these things all of a sudden get fixed now that VMware has its own backup solution \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spotted something that had not occurred to me yet&#8230; A small new detail in vSphere 4.1 (or I just missed out on it previously)&#8230; VMware has had this &#8220;problem&#8221; for a long time: If you added a second virtual disk to a virtual machine on a datastore different from the first virtual disk, vSphere used to name that new virtual disk the same as the base disk. Well not any more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,110,103,109,111,104],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-backup","tag-naming-convention","tag-virtual-backup","tag-virtual-disk","tag-vmdk-naming","tag-vsphere-4-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}