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Hope this is what you are looking for: <a href="http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/05/find-the-service-tag-or-serial-number-of-vmware-esx-host/" rel="ugc">http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/05/find-the-service-tag-or-serial-number-of-vmware-esx-host/</a><br />
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Look at those comments.
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Hope this is what you are looking for: http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/05/find-the-service-tag-or-serial-number-of-vmware-esx-host/ [http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/05/find-the-service-tag-or-serial-number-of-vmware-esx-host/]

Look at those comments.

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@clonyxlro - that command is not available on exsi 4.1
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@clonyxlro - that command is not available on exsi 4.1

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Is there a similar command inside of ESXi 4.i where I can pull the server's serial number from? In Linux I can use the dmidecode command for this...
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Is there a similar command inside of ESXi 4.i where I can pull the server's serial number from? In Linux I can use the dmidecode command for this...

dmidecode in ESXi 4.1?

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