{"id":3299,"date":"2018-05-09T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2022-12-02T03:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:14:24","slug":"how-to-find-serial-number-from-vmware-vsphere-esxi-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/how-to-find-serial-number-from-vmware-vsphere-esxi-host","title":{"rendered":"How to find Serial Number from Vmware Vsphere Esxi Host"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Enable SSH on the ESXi Machine and run the following<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-wab-pastacode\">\n\t<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <pre class=\"language-markup code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-markup code-embed-code\">esxcfg-info | grep &quot;Serial N&quot;<\/code><\/pre> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If this doesnt work then you can use something like this in powershell&nbsp;however it needs Vcenter and Vsphere CLI<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-wab-pastacode\">\n\t<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <pre class=\"language-markup code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-markup code-embed-code\">Get-VMHost | Select Name,<br\/>    @{N=\u2019Serial\u2019;E={(Get-EsxCli -VMHost $_).hardware.platform.get().SerialNumber}} |<br\/>Export-Csv serial.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture<\/code><\/pre> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enable SSH on the ESXi Machine and run the following If this doesnt work then you can use something like this in powershell&nbsp;however it needs Vcenter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1265,2468,1295,1765,594],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-esxi","tag-get","tag-host","tag-serial","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}