Renaming ESXi Host Local Datastores by PowerCLI
One of my customers set up a large number of ESXi hosts, installed on local storage. Since they're not doing anything with that storage, they never bothered renaming those datastores and so their vCenter inventory was filled with instances of "datastore1 (#)". This is just a housekeeping thing, but that's really messy. Generally speaking, a bit of mess isn't a big deal, but those little messes always seem to cause problems when you're troubleshooting some other major issue. And, fortunately, this is really easy to fix. Rather than write my own script, I did some quick googling and found that VMNICK had done all the work already, with his own " rename local host storage " script. In his post, he notes that the script might explode if you use the string "datastore1" on any other datastores in the environment. Excepting a very particular subset of situations, I'm not a fan of explosions, and so I figured that I could probably fix t...