Renaming ClusterNetworkInterface

Question

   PS c:\Windows\system32> Get-ClusterNetworkInterface  
     
   Name          Node Network         State  
   \----          ---- -------         -----  
   N01 - FOO (1) N01  Foo Network        Up  
   N02 - FOO (1) N02  Foo Network        Up  
   N01 - BAR     N01  Bar Network        Up  
   N02 - BAR     N02  Bar Network        Up  

Notice that the Name of the ClusterNetworkInterface for the Foo Network has parentheses in it. How do I rename the ClusterNetworkInterface to remove the parentheses?

Note: I do not want/need to rename the Network. And I do not want/need to rename the underlying network adapter on the hosts. This is a separate entity that I want to rename called ClusterNetworkInterface.

In the notional image below -- I want to rename the item circled in yellow:

Answer 1

Hi,

We may change the name in the NIC settings like below:

double click the name:

Then refresh the Cluster manager:

Thanks for your time!
Best Regards,
Anne

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Answer 2

For anyone else coming here from searches, I had the exact same problem with trying to get rid of the (1) that only appeared in the Failover Cluster Manager with no PowerShell command to remove it. The solution was to simply restart each of the server nodes in the cluster after verifying the name of the NIC was indeed unique. After the servers restarted, the (1) was gone.