PVE 6.3-3 - Change Hostname

[fsociety3765]

Hi all,

I want to change the hostname of my PVE. It is already setup and running numerous VMs.

I know I need to edit /etc/hostname and also /etc/hosts but from what I have read elsewhere on the forums and also online is that some directories also need to be moved for the VMs to continue working. I may have misread but I think the locations of these directories were different over various versions of PVE.

Is anyone able to clarify the exact steps I need to take to make this change on PVE 6.3-3 please to get the hostname updated?

Thanks,

FS

 

[fsociety3765]

Thought I would post how I achieved this.

I should note that my PVE is not currently part of a cluster. I do plan on adding further nodes in the future which is why I wanted to get this hostname changed now. My PVE did already have about 25 VMs running, however.

Update /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, and /etc/postfix/main.cf with the new hostname.

Take a backup of the current node.
cp -r /etc/pve/nodes/OLD-HOSTNAME /root/

Restart the server.
reboot

Update /etc/pve/storage.cfg with the new hostname.

Move all VM configuration files from the old node to the new node.
mv /etc/pve/nodes/OLD-HOSTNAME/qemu-server/* /etc/pve/nodes/NEW-HOSTNAME/qemu-server

Restart the server.
reboot

At this point, everything was working as desired so I deleted the old node and did a final restart.
rm -rf /etc/pve/nodes/OLD-HOSTNAME
reboot


I'm not sure if this could have been cut down somewhat, or if I have missed any minor other bits where references to the old hostname appear but these are the steps I took and it's working.

Thanks,

FS

 

[jewlian.404]

Hi All

Also had the same Problem. For me it didnt quite work. After following the steps above my ProxMox Node appeared to be Offline. With the help of ChatGPT i figured out a way just to replace the Hostname everywhere. Worked perfect!

sudo find /path/to/search -type f -readable -writable -exec grep -IlZ "OLDNAME" {} + | xargs -0 -I {} sed -i 's/OLDNAME/NEWNAME/g' "{}"