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07.11.2014 · Hi! Supported or not, does anyone know of a way to manually change the ESXi host's UUID? I have an issue with an odd system (Supermicro SBB), which has two independent nodes in the same physical enclosure. For test/lab purposes, it makes a great two-node ESXi cluster. However, I recently fi...

For example, you have 2 virtual machines VM1 and VM2 with the same UUID (which is called Instance UUID for VMware, and VM UUID for Hyper-V) in the ESXi hosts ...

08.08.2016 · This UUID is generated when you power ON or reset the Virtual Machine. As long as the VM is not copied or moved to another location, this UUID does not change. Now, in our case, we did not move the VM files to a new LUN and created a …

11.05.2018 · First, shut down your virtual machine that you want to change the UUID on. Edit the .vmx file of the virtual machine that you are changing the UUID on. Look for the following value in your .vmx file: uuid.bios = Enter your new UUID, it has to be formatted as below, make sure to Include the quotation marks. ***Note*** the – in the middle of the UUID

Set unique virtual machine (VM) UUIDs for all vCenter Servers of Deep Security. Edit the vCenter Server Unique ID value on vSphere Client or ...

Jun 06, 2016 · This is just a quick post, to show how to grab this information using PowerCLI. After pointing the PowerCLI session at the relevent vCenter (or ESXi host), run the following: Get-VMHost | Select Name,@ {n="HostUUID";e= {$_.ExtensionData.hardware.systeminfo.uuid}} This results in listing each host, along with its UUID:

24.10.2019 · The UUID value of the backed up ESXi host is mentioned in the Manifest.txt file inside the configBundle.tgz backup archive. Once you have prepared your freshly installed ESXi host to restore ESXi configuration from a backup, connect to the ESXi host via SSH and enter the host to the maintenance mode.

The most clean and troublefree solution would be to create a new machine and attach the disks. However, if you want to edit the ...

Jun 01, 2010 · Changing the UUID of a ESXi Install. I need to do an install of roughly 30 ESXi hosts on to ubs keys. For obvious reasons I would like to image (using Acronis) one pre configed ESXi install and duplicate it to roughly 30 USB keys. Talking to other people this can be done with any bit block level copy program.

17.10.2019 · You cannot change the UUID of the ESXi server since the identifier is generated depending on the hardware. However, you can recover the ESXi configuration of the ESXi host A to the ESXi host B after changing the UUID in the Manifest.txt  file stored in the configBundle.tgz  ESXi configuration backup archive.

Oct 05, 2020 · The line uuid.bios = "" exists, but has an invalid value. The line uuid.bios = "" exists with a valid value, and either the line uuid.action = "keep" or the line uuid.action = "change" exists in the virtual machine's configuration file. Suspending and resuming a virtual machine does not trigger the process that generates a UUID.

Nov 07, 2014 · Hi! Supported or not, does anyone know of a way to manually change the ESXi host's UUID? I have an issue with an odd system (Supermicro SBB), which has two independent nodes in the same physical enclosure. For test/lab purposes, it makes a great two-node ESXi cluster. However, I recently fi...

29.08.2019 · ESXi can detect the VMFS datastore copy. You can mount the datastore copy with its original UUID or change the UUID. The process of changing the UUID is called the datastore resignaturing. Whether you select resignaturing or mounting without resignaturing depends on how the LUNs are masked in the storage environment.

01.06.2010 · Changing the UUID of a ESXi Install I need to do an install of roughly 30 ESXi hosts on to ubs keys. For obvious reasons I would like to image (using Acronis) one pre configed ESXi install and duplicate it to roughly 30 USB keys.

06.12.2013 · The reason for this is that the cloned ESXi hosts will have a duplicated VMFS UUID. To fix this, you just need to re-signature the VMFS volume by using the following ESXCLI command: esxcli storage vmfs snapshot resignature -l [VMFS-VOLUME] Categories // ESXi, Nested Virtualization Tags // clone, esxi, nested, nested virtualization, uuid Trackbacks

Create new Host* (preferably in host group VMware) · Go to Templates · Search for, select "VMware UUID ESXi Standalone" and add · Go to Macros, ...

You do not need to unregister unless its on a single host. Download the vmx file from the VM`s folder. Edit the bios.uuid and vc.uuid in the file. Upload the new vmx to the VM`s folder. Migrate the Vm to another host using the Webclient, this then forces a change in UUID as it notices its been changed. Boot the machine up now and it will have a new UUID.

If the SMBIOS version of the ESXi 5.0 system is of version 2.6 or later, the SMBIOS UUID reported by the ESXi 5.0 host might be different from the actual ...

06.06.2016 · I had to list the host UUID of all the ESXi hosts in an environment recently. This is just a quick post, to show how to grab this information using PowerCLI. After pointing the PowerCLI session at the relevent vCenter (or ESXi host), run the following: Get-VMHost | Select Name,@ {n="HostUUID";e= {$_.ExtensionData.hardware.systeminfo.uuid}}

Open VMware vSphere client, and log into the ESXi host or vCenter machine managing the virtual machine you want to edit.

I need to do an install of roughly 30 ESXi hosts on to ubs keys. For obvious reasons I would like to image (using Acronis) one pre configed ...

The second issue is having a duplicated ESXi System UUID, ... login to each Nested ESXi VM and manually change the IP Address and hostname ...