Re: [Nolug] Is there a way to determine the host VMware box for a VM from inside the VM?

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@puryear-it.com>wrote:

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Good morning,

This might be achieved through the VIX API; connecting to the host from
the guest using the VMCI interface, VMware Tools commands, or through the
 "backdoor" system operations that hosts expose to VMs for
self-introspection.

In practice, if you want to find where a VM lives --- you search for its
hostname or IP address in vCenter; or through ESXi host management.

An alternative is to search by VM MAC address. Lookup the MAC address of
the virtual machine's eth0, and then script a search for VMs containing
that MAC address.

Or SSH into your switches, and start tracing the MAC address through
your L2 network, until your trace lands on a switchport that belongs to
an ESXi host

Got it?

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