Obtain the UUID of a VMware Host

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Issue

The customer portal reports UUID's as the name of VMware ESXi hosts after virt-who report which require the customer to know in advance what the UUID of the hyper they wish to attach their Virtual Datacenter subscription to. The following methods can assist with obtaining a hypervisors UUID to in VMware.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • VMware ESX

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