When failing over from a production site to a DR site, the datastores that are mounted on the ESX hosts at your DR site are named using the “snap-xxxxxxx-NAME” naming convention by default.
Per this thread, this was not this way in the SRM beta, but was changed for the GA release so folks would be able to easily identify snapshots. You can disable the renaming process by doing the following…
1. Locate vmware-dr.xml in the C:\Program Files\Site Recovery Manager\Config directory
2. Change <fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>false</fixRecoveredDatastoreNames> to be <fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>true</fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>
Thanks to the folks on VMware Communties for the great tip.
