Friday 30 November 2012

VMware ESXi 4.1: Find Hardware Serial Number

To find the hardware serial number

  • Enable Tech Support Mode within the vSphere Client
  • SSH to the ESXi host
  • Login as root and run the following command:

esxcfg-info | grep "Serial Number"

For example:

host> esxcfg-info | grep "Serial Number"

      |----Serial Number............................................ABCDEFGHIJ

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