Get-Vmhost vmhostname | Get-View | select @{Name="Serial Number"; Expression={($_.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo | where {$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq “ServiceTag”}).IdentifierValue}}
$foo =Get-Vmhost vmhostname | Get-View $foo.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo | where {$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq “ServiceTag” } | select IdentifierValue
$hostname = Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -property name,Hardware.SystemInfo foreach ($hname in $hostname) { $hn = $hname.name $Man = $hname.Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor $Mod = $hname.Hardware.SystemInfo.Model $serviceTag = $($hname.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo | where {$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq “ServiceTag” }).IdentifierValue $hname | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name VMHost -Value $hn $hname | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name OEM -Value $Man $hname | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Model -Value $Mod $hname | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ServiceTag -Value $serviceTag } $hostname | select VMHost, OEM, Model, ServiceTag
http://tech.zsoldier.com/2011/08/hardwaresysteminfootheridentifyinginfo.html
Serial numbers not showing in powercli but display in vCenter Console.
Conveniently somebody already created this :)
http://www.peppercrew.nl/index.php/2011/04/get-virtual-machine-bios-serial-number/
function Get-VMSerial { param([VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl]$VirtualMachine) $s = ($VirtualMachine.ExtensionData.Config.Uuid).Replace("-", "") $Uuid = "VMware-" for ($i = 0; $i -lt $s.Length; $i += 2) { $Uuid += ("{0:x2}" -f [byte]("0x" + $s.Substring($i, 2))) if ($Uuid.Length -eq 30) { $Uuid += "-" } else { $Uuid += " " } } Write-Output $Uuid.TrimEnd() }
$VM = Get-VM MyVirtualMachine Get-VMSerial -VirtualMachine $VM