Rename vCenter server in Veeam

[ian0x0r]

This is more hack ive just implemented, but it may come in useful for some one else.

At a clients site they had changed the computer name of the vCenter server, which in turn meant that Veeam could not access the server via it original name. Rather than deleting the vCenter server and thus deleting all my backup jobs, I cracked open the Veeam B&R database, found the dbo.Hosts table and changed the name in there. Bottom line, it seems to work.

The only thing that had changed here was the name of the vcenter server, no credentials had changed or anything like that.

I guess this wont be a supported "fix", but it may come in useful to some one.... unless what I have done breaks something else?

Ian

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Ian,

Yes, that would be unsupported fix, but I would suggest another workaround, which I believe is more elegant - just edit hosts file on the backup server to resolve vCenter Server's hostname correctly.

Thanks.

[ian0x0r]

But that would be the easy option ... and to be honest I forgot about that

[Sethbartlett]

If you have powershell installed with Veeam, you can do the following:

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$Server = Get-VBRServer | ?{$_.name -eq "VCName/IP"}
$Server.SetName("Whatever name/IP you want")

This would save you the hassle from updating the DB and is a more secure way to make sure you don't break any links or anything in the DB.