how to get device uuid for a given disk

[ashwinsancheti]

This is the sample output from command

     vmkfstools -t0 /path/to/disk.vmdk

      [0:   157286400] --> [VMFS -- LVID:4f438ba4-a4d98058-16d5-984be10a24d8/4f438ba3-53edb654-b1b1-984be10a24d8/1:(33206304768 -->  33363591168)]

                                      <---------------Device UUID-------->|<--------------VMFS UUID---------->    

  how can i get the the device uuid from VMware API for a given disk.

i have the canonical disk name for the disk like (naa.6032420340234023042043234234)

can someone please help?         

[mhampto]

You can run this command to get a UUID for the virtual disk which is stored in the descriptor file:

vmkfstools -J getuuid /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM/vm.vmdk

Where datastore is the name of the VMFS Volume and the VM is the name of virtual machine.

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[ashwinsancheti]

you are talking about VMDK UUID.

we need the disk uuid (lun that is exposed to the ESX server)