Friendly names for virtual disks?

In a OVM 3.x environment, is it possible and/or advisable to name virtual disks to something other than the default names given by ovm?
I'm trying to find ways to ease management of resources, especially when backing up and restoring virtual machines and disk images. Keeping track of these long alpha/numeric disk names is a royal pain to put it mildly.

Thanks for the reply.
That will change the name in the Manager interface, but it will affect the actual filename in the repository. I am looking for a way to change the actual disk file name in the repository.
For example, a typical disk image name in a repository is:
/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000f61bf92a84802fb7/VirtualDisks/0004fb00001200001091a2f14cd396cc.img
Not exactly user-friendly.

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