How do you fully and correctly re-name a hyper-v vm?

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Update: I suppose I should be a little bit more clear, we are able to rename the vm but we want to ensure we go about correctly renaming the file structure not just the vm and vhdx files.

We are in the process of updating/upgrading servers. We moved from "oldvm" to "newvm" how do we correctly rename the vm in it's entirety? We don't just want to rename the machine we want to rename the file structure and everything.

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Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

To rename the virtual machine in Hyper-V, you can open PowerShell on the host and run the following command to modify it. The bold part should be changed according to your actual environment.

Rename-VM VM1 -NewName VM2

Renames virtual machine VM1 to VM2.

For details, you can refer to the following link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/rename-vm?view=windowsserver2022-ps

I hope the information above is helpful.

Best regards

Zunhui

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Answer 2

Combine the approach described in https://community.spiceworks.com/t/hyper-v-moving-renaming/709905 with https://www.deploymentresearch.com/renaming-vhdx-files-for-hyper-v-vms/

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Marcin