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ok, it seems that if you ssh in it works, even though if you do vmkfstools --help it doesn't appear.<br />
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So, cool, problem solved
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ok, it seems that if you ssh in it works, even though if you do vmkfstools --help it doesn't appear.

So, cool, problem solved

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The -J setuuid isn´t working on ESXi 5.0 1311175. The Parameter is invalid. Does anyone has the solution?
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The -J setuuid isn´t working on ESXi 5.0 1311175. The Parameter is invalid. Does anyone has the solution?

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@schweitzerm Post a new EE Question and myself or other experts will be glad to assist.
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@schweitzerm Post a new EE Question and myself or other experts will be glad to assist.

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In older versions of ESX, you used to be able to run this command to get / set the UUID of VMDK files:<br />
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vmkfstools -J getuuid /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM<wbr />/vm.vmdk<br />
vmkfstools -J setuuid /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM<wbr />/vm.vmdk<br />
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If I run vmkfstools now, it doesn't have the &quot;-J&quot; option<br />
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How do I get/set the UUID of VMDK files in ESXi 5?
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In older versions of ESX, you used to be able to run this command to get / set the UUID of VMDK files:

vmkfstools -J getuuid /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM/vm.vmdk
vmkfstools -J setuuid /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM/vm.vmdk

If I run vmkfstools now, it doesn't have the "-J" option

How do I get/set the UUID of VMDK files in ESXi 5?

Get/Set UUID for VMDK on ESXi 5

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.