Dell EMC VxRail Appliance - Renaming a VxRail vSphere Distributed Switch; Renaming VxRail dvPortGroup

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Renaming a VxRail vSphere Distributed Switch
When the VxRail cluster is configured onsite, a default name is assigned to the vSphere
Distributed Switch in the vCenter Server inventory. Use the procedure below to change the
name to conform to local naming conventions. See the SolVe Desktop procedure for VxRail
available on support.emc.com for more detail.
1. Log in to vSphere web client as administrator@vsphere.local.
2. In vCenter Server, navigate to Home > Networking.
3. Right-click VMWARE HCI Distributed Switchxxx and click Settings > Edit Settings.
4. Enter the new name in General > Name field and click OK.
5. Verify that the vDS name was changed in vCenter Server Web Client or from an ESXi
console by running the following command:
esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware list
Renaming VxRail dvPortGroup
When the VxRail cluster is configured onsite, a default name is assigned to the vSphere
distributed in the vCenter Server inventory. Use the procedure below to change the name to
conform to local naming conventions. See the SolVe Desktop procedure for VxRail available on
support.emc.com for more detail.
NOTE: Changing the name of dvPortGroup from the vCenter Server web client does not
disconnect virtual machines connected to the dvPortGroup. The updated information is pushed
to the ESXi/ESX hosts connected to the dvPortGroup without causing an outage.
1. Log in to vSphere Web Client as administrator@vsphere.local.
2. In vCenter Server, navigate to Home > Networking.
3. Right-click VMWARE HCI Distributed Switchxxx > dvPortGroup and click Edit Settings.
4. Enter the new name in General > Name field.
5. Click OK.
6. Use the vCenter Server web client to verify that the dvPortGroup name has changed.