How to get ESXi CPU model through command line??

[victorcfonseca]

Hello,

Does anyone know how to collect the ESXi host CPU model through command line? I do not want to use Get-VM or PowerCLI. I need it to be via esxcli or something similar.

Thanks in advance.

Victor Fonseca.

[dja234]

Try below commands

esxcli hardware cpu global get

hardware cpu list

[victorcfonseca]

Hello,

Thanks for answering.
I had already tried these commands .. See the result:

~ # esxcli hardware cpu global get

   CPU Packages: 2

   CPU Cores: 12

   CPU Threads: 24

   Hyperthreading Active: true

   Hyperthreading Supported: true

   Hyperthreading Enabled: true

   HV Support: 3

   HV Replay Capable: true

   HV Replay Disabled Reasons:

~ #

The processor model, which is what I need, does not appear ..

=(

Any suggestion?

Thanks,

Victor Fonseca.

[bluefirestorm]

I don't think the esxcli would give you a friendly name such as Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3.

The other command

esxcli hardware cpu list

will give you the family, model, type, stepping, clock speed, and L2/L3 cache sizes. Good luck in trying to find out using the numbers :smileylaugh:

Alternatively is to use

esxcli hardware platform get

will give you the manufacturer and serial number.

Depending on the manufacturer, you might be able to look at their support site and use the serial number to see what was originally shipped.

esxcfg-info -w | less -i

will consolidate many of the different hardware related esxcli hardware, lspci and other hardware related configuration; but again it may not necessarily present a friendly names such as one would see in Windows Device Manager.

[dja234]

Try this command

vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware

[victorcfonseca]

Hi!

The command 'vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware' returns me a very large number of information. I'd like to filter only this part:

	(vim.host.CpuPackage) {
	dynamicType = <unset>,
	index = 1,
	vendor = "intel",
	hz = 3058999441,
	busHz = 132999952,
	description = "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU	X5675  @ 3.07GHz",
	threadId = (short) [

Do you know a way to do this?

I used the command below and it almost worked, but I'm forcing 'grep' to search for 'Xeon', which is not ideal.

~ # vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep 'Xeon' | awk 'NR==1{print $3,$4,$6,$7,$8}'

"Intel(R) Xeon(R) X5675 @ 3.07GHz",

Any ideias? =D

Thanks,

Victor.

[bluefirestorm · Accepted solution]

Try vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep cpuModel

[victorcfonseca]

Hummm.. Very good.

Look this command.. 😃

~ # vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep cpuModel | cut -d '"' -f2

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5675  @ 3.07GHz

I think that will help me!

Thanks a lot, man.

Victor Fonseca.