Rename the server for Systems Center Virutal Machine Manager 1807

Alexander Gomez 121 Reputation points
2021-03-26T16:16:48.64+00:00

Hi. Wanted to get some feedback on this. I'm walking into a company who has SCVMM 1807 installed, but its been severely neglected for maybe about a year. I'm trying to clean it up and organize it for them. ONE of the things I have on my list is to rename the server, because whoever commissioned it, did not do a good job of sticking with the naming conventions of the organization. The VMM server also has its SQL database installed on the same machine. So I'm pretty sure that I will have to rename the SQL instance. That is no problem. Besides renaming the windows server, and the SQL instance, can anyone tell me any extra steps that I would have to do in order to not 'break' the existing agent connections and be able to still open up SCVMM? Would I have to repoint the VMM software to the new named instance or would renaming the Windows server to the same name already accomplish this for me. Would I have to reinstall the VMM agent on all the managed hosts? Thank you for any feedback.

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  1. Crystal-MSFT 42,716 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-03-29T02:53:18.19+00:00

    @Alexander Gomez , Based as i know, if both SQL server and VMM server are running on the same machine, renaming the server may cause the failure of starting VMM service. So we suggest to schedule a non-business time to do this.

    As a reminder, please also ensure we have done backup before we take any action.

    To rename the VMM server name, we can refer to the following steps:
    1, Uninstall VMM server with "retain database"
    2. Rename the computer name and restart the computer
    3. Rename the instance of SQL server by using the following commands.

    For a renamed computer that hosts a default instance of SQL Server, run the following procedures:
    sp_dropserver <old_name>;
    GO
    sp_addserver <new_name>, local;
    GO

    For a renamed computer that hosts a named instance of SQL Server, run the following procedures:
    sp_dropserver <old_name\instancename>;
    GO
    sp_addserver <new_name\instancename>, local;
    GO
    4. Restart the SQL service
    5. Re-install the VMM server

    Hope it can help.

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  1. Alexander Gomez 121 Reputation points
    2021-03-29T13:02:43.677+00:00

    Thank you Crystal. One more question before I give it a try. The last step should then be to reinstall SCVMM using "an existing database"? That should essentially get the result I'm looking for which is a renamed server with all existing agent connections?

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