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Re: Change VM's serial number

by Contributor in vSphere SDK for Perl Discussions
‎03-26-2015 08:50 AM
‎03-26-2015 08:50 AM
I maybe have a solution, but i don't know how to do. i explain, as said before i'm using dmidecode to get serial number of servers. Command i'm doing is dmidecode -s chassis-serial-number and... See more...
I maybe have a solution, but i don't know how to do. i explain, as said before i'm using dmidecode to get serial number of servers. Command i'm doing is dmidecode -s chassis-serial-number and return is "none". So i need to find variable in vmx file which can give access to set this. If you have any idea ?

Re: Change VM's serial number

by Contributor in vSphere SDK for Perl Discussions
‎03-26-2015 08:35 AM
‎03-26-2015 08:35 AM
Thanks for your answer, i test by adding this line to my vmx file and my VM: myCompany.uuid = "toto" It doesn't change anything. When i'm trying to get the serial number with a tool like dm... See more...
Thanks for your answer, i test by adding this line to my vmx file and my VM: myCompany.uuid = "toto" It doesn't change anything. When i'm trying to get the serial number with a tool like dmidecode for exemple, it's always the same resulat i had something like: VMWARE-56 4d 2b 7b aa 58 03 4a-d8 e3 ab 71 b4 41 bc ae Problem is i'm using a tool that import the serial number of servers (hard and virtual) based on an agent on the server which run dmidecode (dmidecode -s chassis-serial-number). And we have problems if we have serials with spaces, so 'im looking for a solution to change this in order to delete spaces.

Re: Change VM's serial number

by Contributor in vSphere SDK for Perl Discussions
‎03-26-2015 07:58 AM
‎03-26-2015 07:58 AM
Problem is when i bring machine power on, uuid.bios change in vmx file with spaces. I just replace my uuid.bios like (uuid generated form a generator): uuid.bios = "5d8cd632-9dfb-4011-94d3-3c781... See more...
Problem is when i bring machine power on, uuid.bios change in vmx file with spaces. I just replace my uuid.bios like (uuid generated form a generator): uuid.bios = "5d8cd632-9dfb-4011-94d3-3c781c8bfdca" Then booting my vm change the uuid.bios like this: uuid.bios =  "56 4d 2b 7b aa 58 03 4a-d8 e3 ab 71 b4 41 bc ae"

Change VM's serial number

by Contributor in vSphere SDK for Perl Discussions
‎03-26-2015 04:58 AM
‎03-26-2015 04:58 AM
Hi guys, I have to deploy an automated VMware infrastructure. To made this, Y use SDK library with perl to attack my ESXis servers and create VMs. I need to use the serial number of VMs to ide... See more...
Hi guys, I have to deploy an automated VMware infrastructure. To made this, Y use SDK library with perl to attack my ESXis servers and create VMs. I need to use the serial number of VMs to identify servers into the Realease Management tool and then deploy. This way work pretty well with hardware servers but, i met a problem about VM's serial number. Indeed it is composed by default with VMware-uuid. But UUID is split and space are inserted which make me crazy to manage. So my question is, first is to possible to get a serial number without space characters and next how to change with the SDK library ? Many thanks for your help.