Capacity Planner 3.0 under objects next to hostname I see a mac address( in the SN field) that looks virtual why?

[brikeyes12]

I am seeing this , does this mean that the server is already virtulized ?

[a_p_]

Please provide some details about the host's hardware (e.g. vendor/model). What's running on this host?

André

[brikeyes12]

thanks for the reply ! is is ruiing esx 4.0 on a Dell 710 , mostly windows guests and some unix

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

To me this looks more like a virtual machine running on an ESX host rather than the host itself!? This would explain the Serial Number with "VMware" and the UUID.

André

[brikeyes12]

yes what I am almost %100 sure of is this is a VM guest OS , due to the serial number showing a vmware genereated MAC, I dont have access to the physical server as they are in Afganistan and dont have rights to login to them to confirm that they are a VM, THIS IS A VM GUEST ! I just needed to be sure and check with someone before I DELETED it from capacity planner .!

thanks!!!