Hello, please help. I am stuck at the last step of migration from old cluster to one single VMWare. I was able to migrate and restore everything, and the last step I needed to rename the sql instance to make it the same. I was not able to do so! I tried to drop and add server, it was successful, and @@servername returns me the desired name, however, it still displays as old one on MS SQL Management Studio in Object Explorer, and I cannot get rid of it.
SELECT
SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') returns me old name,
and my instance in Object Explorer looks like 'PR_OLD_NAME\OLD_NAME', even though @@servername returns 'PR_NEW_NAME\NEW_NAME'. SO, after trying a lot of different options, I decided to reinstall and add new instance with the right name, and do all the restores again. However, I cannot add the same name as I want, because it is limited to 16 characters, and my machinename in servername always shows as old one! So, I reinstalled it, and added the name I wanted, however, since it does prefix with the machine name, it does not give me desired result. Since I need multiple sql instances with similar scenario, I do not want to rename machine, because it will be changed for all other instances, right??? I don't understand how our original sql environment has multiple sql instances on the same machine with different names, something like 'SERVER1\sqldata', 'SERVER2\sqltext2', 'SERVER3\somethingelse'. I need to migrate it with the exact names as it has now... Any thoughts?
JulieShop