[BETA] [HPE VME] - Failed to find the domain by name

[dust24_99]

I am not seeing anyone else report this yet so I wanted to share an issue that I ran into. If you rename an instance/VM in HPE Morpheus, it does not appear to rename the VM in HVM. So, when a backup is ran on a VM, it looks in the hypervisor for a VM name that matches the name in Morpheus. If it can't find it it will give this error:

Failed : [VM_NAME] : Failed to find the domain by name: Domain not found: no domain with matching name '[VM_NAME]'

In my case, the VM was originally deployed with the name w2025, then renamed in the OS and in Morpheus to dc01. However, when running 'virsh list' it still showed the w2025 name for the VM. I had to shutdown the VM, edit the name in the XML, then Veeam was able to pickup the VM and successfully perform the backup.

[cody.ault]

Hey, this is a known behavior in HPE VME. They will cache the name in the VME UI and tell libvirt to perform a rename operation the next time the VM starts. My understanding is that libvirt doesn't have a method to update a VM domain name while it's running so you have to shutdown the VM and start it again, or if it's powered off, you have to start the VM for it to take effect.

[dust24_99]

I didn't attempt to power on the VM before editing it to see if it renamed it. I'll confirm that the next time I try it. Thank you.