Solved: What is vm uid how to locate.

prakash9339 · ‎09-18-2016

What is vm uid how to locate.

Anjani_Kumar · ‎09-19-2016

Here is a article to understand UUID. Its a unique idetifier to identify the vm. you can get it in the vmx file also sometimes you can get it via prefix to your vm in case u are using vcd.

Virtual Machine Identifier — UUID

Please consider marking this answer "correct" or "helpful" if you found it useful. Anjani Kumar | VMware vExpert 2014-2015-2016 | Infrastructure Specialist Twitter : @anjaniyadav85 Website : http://www.Vmwareminds.com

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Anjani_Kumar · ‎09-19-2016

Here is a article to understand UUID. Its a unique idetifier to identify the vm. you can get it in the vmx file also sometimes you can get it via prefix to your vm in case u are using vcd.

Virtual Machine Identifier — UUID

Please consider marking this answer "correct" or "helpful" if you found it useful. Anjani Kumar | VMware vExpert 2014-2015-2016 | Infrastructure Specialist Twitter : @anjaniyadav85 Website : http://www.Vmwareminds.com

dhanarajramesh · ‎09-19-2016

you can simple verify in side your windows VM by using below commands

c:\wmic bios get name,serialnumber,version

c:\wmic csproduct get name,identifyingnumber,uuid

vMarkusK1985 · ‎09-19-2016

Hello,

I wrote a script to report VM UUIDs:

Script - Report vSphere VM UUIDs - my cloud-(r)evolution

For Detailed Informatins about UUIDs, check this Blog article:

http://www.virtu-al.net/2015/12/04/a-quick-reference-of-vsphere-ids/

Kind Regards,

Markus

https://mycloudrevolution.com | https://twitter.com/vMarkus_K | https://github.com/vMarkusK

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What is vm uid how to locate.