How To Find Dell Service Tag On Rack Server

Question: How practice I find out the DELL service tag and express code of a PowerEdge server that is running VMWare ESXi (or VMWare Server)?

Reply: Depending on what you are running (i.e VMWare ESXi or VMWare Server), use one of the methods shown below to identify the DELL service tag.

Method one: Place DELL Service TAG on VMWare Server

If yous've installed VMWare server on a base Os, you tin login to the base Os, and use dmidecode to get the service tag as shown below. This is just like how you identify service tag for DELL poweredge servers on a normal not-virtual server that is running a Linux Os.

# dmidecode | more Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 25 bytes. System Data         Manufacturer: Dell Estimator Corporation         Production Proper name: PowerEdge 2850         Serial Number: H234567

Refer to View DELL Service Tag and Express Service Code From Linux and Windows for more details.

Method two: Place DELL Service TAG on VMWare ESXi

If yous've installed VMWare ESXi, there is no Base Os. If yous exercise dmidecode on i of the virtual motorcar running on that ESXi, you'll not get the DELL Service TAG. Instead, yous'll get data about the VMware as shown below.

# dmidecode | more Handle 0x0001, DMI blazon 1, 27 bytes System Information         Manufacturer: VMware, Inc.         Production Name: VMware Virtual Platform         Series Number: VMware-11 aa bb cc dd ee ff gg-hh ii jj

To identify DELL service tag on this server, y'all should login to vSphere client -> click on the top level node in the left-paw tree construction (this is the vmware node) -> click on the "Configuration" tab -> On the left side, it volition display "Hardware" and "Software" sections -> click on "Processors" link in the "Hardware" section -> under the "System", you'll see the DELL service tag as shown in the movie below.

Fig: DELL Service Tag displayed from vSphere Client