Vmware Guest Bios Serial Number
2021年9月15日Download here: http://gg.gg/vz8bd
*Find VMware UUID. VMware virtual machines using BIOS or UEFI same as physical computers and it will be cloned to guest operating system after installation. UUID can be changed manually but it’s absolutely not recommended. Just if there is two machines with same UUID, UUID on one of them should be changed.
*The system is under VMware control and the OS is CenOS 4.6. The command dmidecode does not display system mode and serial number as usual. How can I get the info from CenOS Linux?
*Virtual BIOS DMI information The VMware virtual BIOS has many VMware-specific identifiers which programs can use to detect hypervisors. For the DMI string check, use the BIOS serial number and check for either string ’VMware-’ or ’VMW’ (for Mac OS X guests running on Fusion). Confirmed working on Microsoft and VMware.
*The serial number of a machine is stored in WMI. The location in WMI can vary depending on the hardware manufacturer, but it is generally in one of these classes: Win32BaseBoard, Win32BIOS, or Win32SystemEnclosure. Windows does not present a consistent location in WMI for the enclosure serial number.
You may be in a situation where you need to dynamically set the hostname of a machine as part of your SCCM task sequence. For a zero touch deployment you’ll want to use a method that requires no interaction. In my experience I’ve found that using the serial number of the machine provides a decent unique string.
Easiest way would be to go to the host through Vsphere web console, (assuming you have vsphere access) and then VM’s tab. This will show you the VM’s on the host. From there right click in the grey area in the columns field where it shows state, status, space etc and select Show/Hide Columns. From there you can select UUID from the list.
A note about Windows hostname length. On some forums the maximum size of a Windows hostname is a debate, however I find it best to stick to what Microsoft has published on their site, 15 character maximum and a restriction on some special characters. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/909264Know what platform you’re deploying to
In order to support both physical and virtual platforms I set up most task sequences with separate rules to accommodate physical and virtual machines.Physical Machines
Each Name Workstation has a different condition associated with it, for example the Name Workstation (Physical) step will only run if the system mode does not equal ’Virtual Machine’.
For workstations I like to use only the serial number of the computer which can be accomplished by just typing %SerialNumber% into the Value: box. Most manufactures use a unique string that is fewer than 10 characters, however you should take some samples in your environment first, below is a screenshot of a home built PC that I use, I believe it is an ASRock motherboard. You can see what the serial number of a machine is by opening a PowerShell prompt and typing ’Get-WMIObject Win32_BIOS’VMWare Virtual Machines
VMWare VMs are a different beast, they have very long serial numbers that contain spaces. See example below
Quickbooks software download for mac. Because of the long serial number what I like to do is just take the last two characters and prefix it with ’VM-’ (obviously this gives you less entropy, but I haven’t found the need to image many VMWare machines yet). You’ll see in the screenshot below you can do some basic string manipulation using VB script syntax, we’re taking the right most two characters from the %SerialNumber% task sequence variable, then adding ’VM-’ to the beginning.
To ensure this step only runs on a VMWare virtual machine I use the following criteria.Vmware Guest Bios Serial Number GeneratorHyper-V Virtual Machines
Hyper-V is similar to VMWare where the serial number is going to be long, however the format is a bit easier to work with.
For Hyper-V I take the rightmost 8 characters of the serial number and prefix that with ’VM-’
In order to ensure this only runs on the Hyper-V platform I use the following conditionsFinal ThoughtsVmware Guest Bios Serial Number Download
There are many ways to accomplish the task when you’re working with computers. Hopefully these examples put you on the right track for a task sequence that can accommodate your needs. Comment on this if you know a better way of doing it, I’d like to hear how others are accomplishing this.
Last week I wrote an article on how to ensure unique serial numbers are generated when cloning Mac OS X VMs in vCloud Director and as part of that research, I also came across another neat trick that I learned from one of our Engineers, Regis Duchesne. It turns outs that in recent releases of ESXi and Fusion, you can now set a specific serial number for a Mac OS X VM for customers who may require this for testing purposes.
To set a particular serial number, you simply just need to add the following setting to your VMX file (which can also be automated when working with ESXi via the vSphere API):
serialNumber = ’SERIAL-NUMBER’
Although, I was not able to find the particular release of ESXi and Fusion that introduced this capability, this trick could come in handy for those of you who have this specific requirement.More from my site
Download here: http://gg.gg/vz8bd
https://diarynote.indered.space
*Find VMware UUID. VMware virtual machines using BIOS or UEFI same as physical computers and it will be cloned to guest operating system after installation. UUID can be changed manually but it’s absolutely not recommended. Just if there is two machines with same UUID, UUID on one of them should be changed.
*The system is under VMware control and the OS is CenOS 4.6. The command dmidecode does not display system mode and serial number as usual. How can I get the info from CenOS Linux?
*Virtual BIOS DMI information The VMware virtual BIOS has many VMware-specific identifiers which programs can use to detect hypervisors. For the DMI string check, use the BIOS serial number and check for either string ’VMware-’ or ’VMW’ (for Mac OS X guests running on Fusion). Confirmed working on Microsoft and VMware.
*The serial number of a machine is stored in WMI. The location in WMI can vary depending on the hardware manufacturer, but it is generally in one of these classes: Win32BaseBoard, Win32BIOS, or Win32SystemEnclosure. Windows does not present a consistent location in WMI for the enclosure serial number.
You may be in a situation where you need to dynamically set the hostname of a machine as part of your SCCM task sequence. For a zero touch deployment you’ll want to use a method that requires no interaction. In my experience I’ve found that using the serial number of the machine provides a decent unique string.
Easiest way would be to go to the host through Vsphere web console, (assuming you have vsphere access) and then VM’s tab. This will show you the VM’s on the host. From there right click in the grey area in the columns field where it shows state, status, space etc and select Show/Hide Columns. From there you can select UUID from the list.
A note about Windows hostname length. On some forums the maximum size of a Windows hostname is a debate, however I find it best to stick to what Microsoft has published on their site, 15 character maximum and a restriction on some special characters. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/909264Know what platform you’re deploying to
In order to support both physical and virtual platforms I set up most task sequences with separate rules to accommodate physical and virtual machines.Physical Machines
Each Name Workstation has a different condition associated with it, for example the Name Workstation (Physical) step will only run if the system mode does not equal ’Virtual Machine’.
For workstations I like to use only the serial number of the computer which can be accomplished by just typing %SerialNumber% into the Value: box. Most manufactures use a unique string that is fewer than 10 characters, however you should take some samples in your environment first, below is a screenshot of a home built PC that I use, I believe it is an ASRock motherboard. You can see what the serial number of a machine is by opening a PowerShell prompt and typing ’Get-WMIObject Win32_BIOS’VMWare Virtual Machines
VMWare VMs are a different beast, they have very long serial numbers that contain spaces. See example below
Quickbooks software download for mac. Because of the long serial number what I like to do is just take the last two characters and prefix it with ’VM-’ (obviously this gives you less entropy, but I haven’t found the need to image many VMWare machines yet). You’ll see in the screenshot below you can do some basic string manipulation using VB script syntax, we’re taking the right most two characters from the %SerialNumber% task sequence variable, then adding ’VM-’ to the beginning.
To ensure this step only runs on a VMWare virtual machine I use the following criteria.Vmware Guest Bios Serial Number GeneratorHyper-V Virtual Machines
Hyper-V is similar to VMWare where the serial number is going to be long, however the format is a bit easier to work with.
For Hyper-V I take the rightmost 8 characters of the serial number and prefix that with ’VM-’
In order to ensure this only runs on the Hyper-V platform I use the following conditionsFinal ThoughtsVmware Guest Bios Serial Number Download
There are many ways to accomplish the task when you’re working with computers. Hopefully these examples put you on the right track for a task sequence that can accommodate your needs. Comment on this if you know a better way of doing it, I’d like to hear how others are accomplishing this.
Last week I wrote an article on how to ensure unique serial numbers are generated when cloning Mac OS X VMs in vCloud Director and as part of that research, I also came across another neat trick that I learned from one of our Engineers, Regis Duchesne. It turns outs that in recent releases of ESXi and Fusion, you can now set a specific serial number for a Mac OS X VM for customers who may require this for testing purposes.
To set a particular serial number, you simply just need to add the following setting to your VMX file (which can also be automated when working with ESXi via the vSphere API):
serialNumber = ’SERIAL-NUMBER’
Although, I was not able to find the particular release of ESXi and Fusion that introduced this capability, this trick could come in handy for those of you who have this specific requirement.More from my site
Download here: http://gg.gg/vz8bd
https://diarynote.indered.space
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