VMware determine physical ESX host from guest VM

[mattkr]

Anyway to deterine what ESX host a VM is running on from withing the guest OS itself. Maybe using a vmware-service.exe command? Or do I have to rely on SDK command to do it?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

If the guest is running Microsoft Windows you can use VMware vSphere PowerCLI to retrieve the host with the next PowerCLI script:

Connect-VIServer YourvCenterServerName -Credential (Get-Credential)
$Computername = (Get-ChildItem env:COMPUTERNAME).Value
(Get-VM -Name $ComputerName | Get-VMHost).Name
Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false

Regards, Robert

[pascuzzi]

This script only works if the VM name is the same as the name in the virtual center server and that you enforce that names are unique