How to get Serial number and System information of ESXi host remotely using putty

Posted on April 21, 2015 Updated on April 27, 2015

Get hardware serial number using this command from putty

esxcfg-info | grep “Serial N”

Type the following command from the command line on the service console and you will get some Vendor details and serial number information.

/usr/sbin/dmidecode |grep -A4 “System Information”