Changing Virtual Machine Folder Name

If you need to rename a VM, this is simple as you can simply right click it in the vSphere client and select rename.

The only problem with this is that it doesn't change the folder name on the datastore, so you may end up with a virtual machine called test VM - old, but the folder its files are in is called test VM.

So how to solve this?

Simply Migrate the storage of the Virtual Machine to a different datastore, and the Virtual Machine folder on the new datastore will be created with the new Virtual Machines name.

Job done!