I need a little help with renaming Virtual Disk on Storage with ZFS file system.

[Joogser]

Hello Сolleagues.

On a board Proxmox VE 6.0-4 without subscription.
I need a little help with Virtual Disk renaming on Storage with ZFS file system. Why I need it:

1. I need change ID of VM.
2. Also I have to change ID for virtual disk in order to avoid an issue in future.

So, first step is very easy and clear, need just rename configuration filename:

cd /etc/pve/nodes/Here_is_a_name_of_our_node/qemu-server/

For example need rename 103 in 120. So, lets rename it by:

mv 103.conf 120.conf

Also I have to change ID name for virtual disk:

nano 120.conf
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virtio0: NVME:vm-103-disk-0,cache=writeback,size=120G
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We can see in this config file, virtual disk has 103 id number, need change it on 120. So, change it & save.

Now I need rename this disk image from vm-103-disk-0 make vm-120-disk-0.

This disk image storing on NVME disk with ZFS format file system.

BUT! I can't rename it via CLI, because mounted disk showing like an empty in midnight commander.
VM disks on ZFS storage do not use a file but a "zvol". zvols are block devices that do not show up if you go into the directory where the pool ist mounted.

zfs list

Please, give me an idea how to resolve my issue, thanx.

 

[Chris]

I would not recommend you to perform a change of the VMID in such a way as all of our stack relies on consistency of this ID. If you really want to change it, I would recommend to perform a backup and restore to a different ID.
This can all be easily done in the WebUI without risk of destroying something. Just perform the backup, go to the storage where the backup is located, click on restore and select the new VMID.
Once your VM with new ID is up and running, you can destroy the old one as it is no longer needed.

 

[Joogser]

I would not recommend you to perform a change of the VMID in such a way as all of our stack relies on consistency of this ID. If you really want to change it, I would recommend to perform a backup and restore to a different ID.

Okay, if it is possible, could you tell which way I should use to restore performed backup? I have made one test backup of VM, but when I try to restore this backup, I can't give new ID for VM, this option just is not available

Take a look on a screen shots below:

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I did try shutdown this VM and tried restore this VM when it's turned off, result is same.
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[Joogser]

I figured out, need restore it from disk where this backups are storing.

Thanks, work fine.

 

[jckubiaczyk]

Hello,

Just use this command :

zfs rename NVME/vm-103-disk-0 NVME/vm-120-disk-0

Good Day

 

[JOduMonT]

Hello,

Just use this command :

zfs rename NVME/vm-103-disk-0 NVME/vm-120-disk-0

Good Day

in my case, I had to rename it because I decided to migrate my data drive from an old VM to a new VM and my storage obviously didn't have enough space to rsync it. So my goal was to detach my data drive from the old VM and attach it to the new VM, which is easy to do by simply moving the line
virtio2: rpool:vm-103-disk-0,backup=0,cache=writeback,discard=on,replicate=0,size=100000G from my /etc/pve/qemu-server/oldVM.conf to /etc/pve/qemu-server/newVM.conf