Display Hard Drive Model # within VMWare

Also the same with make and model of hard drive.

Its a HP Server but a non-HP disk, RAIDED using a P400i.

Ah well.

See screenshot

 
that is the model of the disk, attached to the SATA storage controller

Mine just says this

- hdparm:

for DISK in `eval echo /dev/[h,s]d?`; do hdparm -i $DISK; done

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- HAL:

hal-device | awk '/block.storage_device/ {print $3}' |sort -u|while read UDI; do
 for KEY in info.product storage.firmware_version storage.serial storage.vendor storage.model; do
 echo "${KEY}: $(hal-get-property --udi ${UDI//\'/} --key $KEY)"; done; echo; done

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- plain listing /dev/disk/by-id:

ls /dev/disk/by-id/|grep -v part

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- listing /sys/block:

for DEVICE in `eval echo /sys/block/[h,s]d?/`; do
 INFOS=($(cat ${DEVICE}/device/{vendor,model} 2>/dev/null)); INFOS="${INFOS[*]}"
 echo "${DEVICE} ${INFOS:=(none)}"; done #  (doesn't work always)

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UnSpawn

Where do I run those???

Sorry, disregard the above.

hongedit: I didn't read the "within VMWare" part of your question. My apologies. The commands I posted can only be run in the host itself and will only work for (E)IDE and SATA drives, not other attached storage.

No probs :)