Find the Serial Number of VMware ESXi Host using CLI

There are multiple ways to find the serial number of the ESXi Host. Check the Serial Number physically inscribed on the server. It may or may not be present in the Configuration Tab of the ESXi Host when checked from vCenter Console.

It may not be always available in the configuration tab and in order to find the serial number of a Host, we can fetch the details like Make\Model and Serial No from SSH.

1. Open Putty and connect to the ESXi SSH console using root account credentials
2. Run the following command to get the serial no
                            esxcli hardware platform get
3. We get the required details as shown below