I have been asked whether there is any problem/issue with renaming NFS datastores - specifically the situation is that the naming convention these folks used for NetApp volumes/exports has resulted in duplicate datastore names - so, when they are in the vSphere client, it is impossible to determine from the name which netapp resources a particular datastore maps to.
So - can they just "rename" these datastores? without risking any problems?
And a related question: does the datastore name have to be the same on each host? So, what I mean is, suppose:
netapp vol=nfsvol1, the export = nfsvol and the datastore was nfsvol1
is it possible to rename the datastore on host 1 (so maybe it becomes host1_nfsvol1) and then on vol2 also (so that it is named host2_nfsvol1)?