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Identifying a Virtual Machine by Its UUID

Identifying a Virtual Machine by Its UUID

Each GSX Server virtual machine is automatically assigned a universally unique identifier (UUID), which is stored in the SMBIOS system information descriptor. It can be accessed by standard SMBIOS scanning software — for example SiSoftware Sandra or the IBM utility smbios2 — and used for systems management in the same ways you use the UUID of a physical computer.

The UUID is a 128-bit integer. The 16 bytes of this value are separated by spaces except for a dash between the eighth and ninth hexadecimal pairs. So a sample UUID might look like this:

00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77-88 99 aa bb cc dd ee ff

For more information about UUIDs, see these sections:

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