How to find all UUID for VM

[RAMLOCK]

HI,

I want to login to esx console and find all UUIDs assigned to VMs. How can i do that?

thnx,

kaushik

[William Lam]

It depends on which UUID you're referring to, there are a few such as bios UUID or vCenter UUID for each VM?

You can easily retrieve these two from the Service Console with the following:

[root@himalaya ~]# grep -i uuid.bios /vmfs/volumes/4a31aece-e34d675a-72cf-003048d9586a/VIMA/VIMA.vmx
uuid.bios = "50 34 d5 e6 3a dd 63 86-7d 1e 01 44 95 96 f1 69"

[root@himalaya ~]# grep -i vc.uuid /vmfs/volumes/4a31aece-e34d675a-72cf-003048d9586a/VIMA/VIMA.vmx
vc.uuid = "5034638b-7aa2-3ca2-b07a-17fa3c4f5041"

Of course you can easily automate this through a simple for loop with the following snippet of code:

#!/bin/bash

for i in $(vmware-cmd -l);
do
        vmname=$(grep -i displayName ${i} | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/"//g')
        vc_uuid=$(grep -i vc.uuid ${i} | awk -F "=" '{print $2}' | sed 's/"//g')
        bios_uuid=$(grep -i uuid.bios ${i} | awk -F "=" '{print $2}' | sed 's/"//g')
        echo -e "${vmname}\t${vc_uuid}\t${bios_uuid}"
done

and the output looks like the following:

dhcp-test        50 34 27 4a b3 62 f6 a9-dc d3 d7 4c 62 a2 41 e1         50 34 83 80 94 d6 17 0e-fa bd 46 4a 7d 68 00 d2
ThinStation-Dev  50 02 8a dd 13 71 a3 1d-eb f6 c7 03 8e bf be 52         56 4d 11 63 bc 02 7c a1-ab 26 15 58 ff 5d ff 69
NATbox   50 34 e8 48 4f d5 fc 62-f7 5f ae 8d fd ec d3 da         50 34 be 4c b3 e0 6c e9-09 28 7b cf 33 0f de 05
Thinapp  50 34 c5 6f 6b 6f c4 98-b8 58 41 c9 a4 11 c1 8b         50 34 a6 cc f5 7a e0 a1-70 9a 16 60 d2 7e 08 9a
hyper-clean      50 02 2c 7a 57 41 06 52-ee c1 03 e6 b3 ed 28 2d         42 02 5f e1 e8 84 1e 92-1a bb c3 16 17 4d 59 6a
scmom.6252009    50 02 12 46 0d 36 3c 88-bf ce 6c b6 d0 77 31 a6         42 02 54 93 c9 f3 06 9f-4b cd d1 a7 41 03 ff 41
hyper-dope       52 94 0c ac 16 13 3b 1a-da c8 c6 0e 9d 8e 7a c8         42 02 84 d9 54 05 0c 36-34 16 fe 3f a5 23 77 65
ESX-Kickstart    50 34 f1 64 57 1c 48 48-81 13 56 be 87 be a3 e7         50 34 8e 50 8c 33 a0 2b-72 fa 4f 31 a5 ad 35 68

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

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[RAMLOCK]

I tried following as told but no output :smileysad:

# grep -i vc.uuid *.vmx

# pwd

/vmfs/volumes/7.3IBM-FCP-DV/fcp-dv-vm4-suse

# ls

fcp-dv-vm4-suse_1-flat.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse-flat.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmsd vmware-10.log vmware-13.log vmware.log

fcp-dv-vm4-suse_1.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse.nvram fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmx vmware-11.log vmware-14.log

fcp-dv-vm4-suse-f4ad2274.vswp fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmxf vmware-12.log vmware-15.log

I am more interested to find the UUID of this VM.

As you can see all UUID of datastore can be availble directly from the pointed ID. Similarly i need the command to get UUID of all VMs in a perticular Datastore.

It is require for my script.

# ls -l

total 5132

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 04:14 3e6d7f65-2077c20a

drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 1400 Feb 10 05:33 476adf87-57213144-faa9-00145efda4fa

drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 2660 Jul 6 22:03 49c17932-0a6064b1-5fbf-00145efda4fc

drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 Jun 2 20:22 4a166013-ebed2665-9469-00145efda4fc

drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 Jul 6 22:17 4a2bd77f-308cc246-03c0-00145efda4fc

drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 Jul 14 09:51 4a2ca556-3affa39b-e79a-00145efda4fc

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 12 22:25 5121dee3-b16eb4d2

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 04:15 6af39d1a-a9d5014f

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Aug 4 00:08 732-2_NFS_DV_esx1 -> 5121dee3-b16eb4d2

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV -> 49c17932-0a6064b1-5fbf-00145efda4fc

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV-temp -> 4a2bd77f-308cc246-03c0-00145efda4fc

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV-temp1 -> 4a166013-ebed2665-9469-00145efda4fc

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV-temp3 -> 4a2ca556-3affa39b-e79a-00145efda4fc

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 local -> 476adf87-57213144-faa9-00145efda4fa

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Aug 4 00:08 nfs_ds1 -> 6af39d1a-a9d5014f

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Aug 4 00:08 nfs_ds2 -> 3e6d7f65-2077c20a

[William Lam]

Are you looking for the VM's UUID or the Datastore UUID? What you've shown me is the Datastore UUID which can be found for each VM by doing vmware-cmd -l and you'll get all the VMs + their Datastore UUID path.

=========================================================================

William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

[RAMLOCK]

I am looking for VM's UUID

[KellyOlivier]

vm-support -x

[RAMLOCK]

This are not UUID of VM's.

1. vm-support -x

VMware ESX Server Support Script 1.30

Available worlds to debug:

vmid=1075 fcp-dv-vm1

vmid=1077 fcp-dv-vm10

vmid=1088 fcp-dv-vm11-x64

vmid=1091 fcp-dv-vm2-xp

vmid=1100 fcp-dv-vm3-rh

vmid=1103 fcp-dv-vm4-suse

vmid=1104 fcp-dv-vm5

vmid=1107 fcp-dv-vm6-xp

vmid=1118 fcp-dv-vm8-suse

vmid=1126 nfs-dv-vm03-xp

vmid=1132 nfs-dv-vm08-xp-x64

vmid=1133 nfs-dv-vm07-vista-x64

vmid=1139 fcp-dv-vm7-rh

vmid=1143 fcp-dv-vm9

vmid=1159 nfs-dv-vm05-suse

vmid=1164 nfs-dv-vm01

vmid=1168 nfs-dv-vm02-x64

vmid=1175 nfs-dv-vm04-rh

vmid=1176 test2

vmid=1197 nfs-dv-vm09-w2k8-x64

vmid=1204 nfs-dv-vm10-vista

vmid=1213 nfs-dv-vm06-w2k8

UUID of some of above mentioned VMs i am attaching with this mail. Need the same output from vmware console also. How can i get this.