Getting hardware product ID & Serial number

[T180985]

Im trying to pull a vmhosts product ID & Serial number, i have been able to get the serial number using the following:

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMhost HostName -V2

$esxcli.hardware.platform.get.Invoke() | Select @{N='VMHost';E={$esxcli.VMHost.Name}},SerialNumber

However i cant seem to find the option for Product ID using get-esxcli... if i run the below command i get the product ID among other entries:

(get-vmhost HostName | get-view).hardware.systeminfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo

Is it possible to separate out Product ID from the list so it can be included with the serial number? They all appear to have the same identifier type

[LucD]

Not too sure what you mean by Product ID.
Is it the HW model?

Get-VMHost | Select Name,

    @{N='Model';E={$_.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.Model}}

[T180985]

So i managed to get the product name e.g. "ProLiant DL380p Gen8" but i want the ID e.g "Product ID: 642121-421"

With the get-view command i get the following list:

IdentifierValue                                                 IdentifierType

---------------                                                 --------------

0****                                                                VMware.Vim.ElementDescription

CZ********                                                        VMware.Vim.ElementDescription

CZ********                                                       VMware.Vim.ElementDescription

CZ********                                                       VMware.Vim.ElementDescription

PSF:                                                               VMware.Vim.ElementDescription

Product ID: 642121-421                               VMware.Vim.ElementDescription

The ID would be more useful to support when logging support tickets etc

[LucD · Accepted solution]

These entries normally have a Key, which you can use to retrieve the desired entry.

First list the available keys and values.

$esx = Get-VMHost -Name MyEsx

$esx.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    [PSCustomObject]@{

        Key = $_.IdentifierType.Key

        Value = $_.IdentifierValue

    }

}

Then you can use the Key to retrieve the desired entry.

$esx = Get-VMHost -Name MyEsx

$tgtKey = '<Key>'

$esx.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo |

where{$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq $tgtKey} |

Select -ExpandProperty IdentifierValue

[T180985]

Annoyingly there are 2 keys with the same name "OemSpecificString" but that first command to find the key names will be massively useful in future, thanks for that

[LucD]

If the Product ID has a specific format, you could use a -match with a RegEx to find the correct entry.

[T180985]

I ended up using:

$esx.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo |

where{$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq $tgtKey -and $_.IdentifierValue -like "Product*"} |

Select -ExpandProperty IdentifierValue

Thanks again