Linux LVM - and re-arranging disks?

The root filesystem is in a VolGroup that consists of /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdd1.

So in between those 2 drives there is sdb and sdc, and i would like to remove those. I am guessing that sdd will be renamed to sdb at next reboot. So question: will this break the root VG?

I can see with vgdisplay that the UUIDs of the partitions are noted in the VG, so i am hoping this could be done (?).

Also, this is a Virtual Machine running inside ESXi, if that matters.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 (yes yes, soon to be upgraded, i promise)
Kernel: 4.4.0
ESXi: 7.0.1

  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               vm-template8-vg
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        2
  Metadata Sequence No  5
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                2
  Open LV               2
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                2
  Act PV                2
  VG Size               41,52 GiB
  PE Size               4,00 MiB
  Total PE              10628
  Alloc PE / Size       10616 / 41,47 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       12 / 48,00 MiB
  VG UUID               QzrdZ7-ML9x-YfJD-RcHA-HaJ1-ZOwW-blha4Z

  --- Physical volumes ---
  PV Name               /dev/sda5
  PV UUID               vLKxJr-fjJA-4Nek-8VvQ-9QK4-tZCN-RDAdRS
  PV Status             allocatable
  Total PE / Free PE    8069 / 12

  PV Name               /dev/sdd1
  PV UUID               TscHFr-0lAt-iCbr-uBac-Cbuz-a33j-culJex
  PV Status             allocatable
  Total PE / Free PE    2559 / 0