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pranags
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‎09-02-2007 08:57 AM

what is uuid:location ?

Hi All,

What does the field uuid:location in vmx file represent? I am noticing that this field changes on doing a vmotion. Does this represent the host on which VM is running?

Thanks,

Prasad.

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sbeaver
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‎09-02-2007 09:01 AM

Yes it is the unique identifier for the host

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pranags
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‎09-02-2007 09:56 PM

Then all the VMs on the same host should have the same uuid.location right? It doesn't look like that.

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Dave_Mishchenko
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‎09-02-2007 10:09 PM

Hi Prasad, it is a uniquie identifier that the vmkernel creates for each VM to be able to identify it. It will change any time your move or copy a VM (as it does with vmotion).

See page 75 and following for more info: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx25_admin.pdf

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