brain-dump/sysadmin/vmware/find-datastore-by-id.md

Find Datastore by ID in ESXI

When I did a re-scan of the VMware hosts, PRTG no longer reports the "friendly" datastore name, but the UUID.

For example: 5b753e3e-d28d7814-7cc9-a4badb17efd2

To track down (and label them), first enable SSH on the ESXI host by logging into the host directly (outside of vCenter):

• Host > Manage > Services > TSM-SSH > right-click > Start

Login via CLI/terminal:

ssh root@esxihost.example.com

To find the corresponding VM name, run:

esxcli storage filesystem list | grep -i 5b753e3e-d28d7814-7cc9-a4badb17efd2

You'll see:

/vmfs/volumes/5b753e3e-d28d7814-7cc9-a4badb17efd2  LinuxVM         5b753e3e-d28d7814-7cc9-a4badb17efd2     true  VMFS-6

With LinuxVM being the friendly name of the datastore.

Be sure to disable SSH on the ESXI host when done.