KB ID 0001670
Problem
A few weeks ago I needed to sort out some extended warranty for a customers servers. To do that I needed the serial numbers of those servers, (a mixture of IBM/Lenovo and Dell Servers).
As I didn’t fancy a drive to two different datacenters, I wanted to try and get them programatically.
Solution
After some searching I came across a post by one of my old EE buddies LucD with exactly what I needed. I’m assuming you have PowerCLI setup before beginning.
Connect to your Virtual infrastructure;
Connect-VIServer {vCenter-server-FQDN}Then, (assuming you have a folder called C:\Temp that you can write to).
Get-VMHost | Select Name, @{N='Serial';E={(Get-EsxCli -VMHost $_).hardware.platform.get().SerialNumber}} | Export-Csv c:\temp\serial.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
Then open your C:\Temp\SerialNumber.csv file, and there’s your serial numbers.
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