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Check your esxi is physical server or a virtual machine

 ESXCLI command can be used for verifying login (by ssh) esxi server is physical or virtual using:

esxcli hardware platform get

1)Physical:

[root@ranjith-s1:~] esxcli hardware platform get

Platform Information

   UUID: f 0x46 0xbb 0x77 0x4e 

   Product Name: PRIMERGY RX2530 

   Vendor Name: FUJITSU

   Serial Number: XYZABC

   IPMI Supported: true

[root@mva-rx2530-s1:~]


2)Virtual Machine

[root@ranjith-2:~] esxcli hardware platform get
Platform Information
   UUID: 2 0xbd 0x1c 0xa0 0xd4 0x5e 0x32 0x7 0
   Product Name: VMware7,1
   Vendor Name: VMware, Inc.
   Serial Number: VMware-12 34 56
   Enclosure Serial Number: None
   BIOS Asset Tag: No Asset Tag
   IPMI Supported: false


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