VMWare vSphere 5 is out before short time and I installed a few servers in lab where computer stacked one on another and I am too lazy to move them in order to determine which memory modules installed there and if I can add some RAM.
I remember that on usual deployment of VMWare there is a tab in vSphere client called “Hardware Status” but as I understand from fast look on a few deployments it present only when you connected to vCenter and not standalone ESXi host. So I enabled SSH on ESXi host get into CLI and start to issue every command I remember, but without success. then I decide just to look into /sbin for executable names and take an educated guess about appropriate command. Long story short – the command you need is:
smbiosDump
Which will produce output like below
...
Physical Memory Array: #33
Use: 0x03 (System memory)
Location: 0x03 (Motherboard)
Slots: 4
Max. Size: 8 GB
ECC: 0x05 (Single-bit)
Memory Device: #34
Location: "DIMM1"
Manufacturer: "0000000000000000"
Serial: "4118C4B6"
Part Number: "37442D32324A4233"
Memory Array: #33
Error Info: No Error
Form Factor: 0x09 (DIMM)
Type: 0x13 (Other)
Type Detail: 0x0080 (Synchronous)
Data Width: 64 bits (+8 ECC bits)
Size: 512 MB
Speed: 533 MHz
Memory Device: #35
Location: "DIMM2"
Manufacturer: "7F4F000000000000"
Serial: "00000000"
Part Number: "4A4D333637513634"
Memory Array: #33
Error Info: No Error
Form Factor: 0x09 (DIMM)
Type: 0x13 (Other)
Type Detail: 0x0080 (Synchronous)
Data Width: 64 bits (+8 ECC bits)
Size: 512 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
Memory Device: #36
Location: "DIMM3"
Manufacturer: "0000000000000000"
Serial: "43148655"
Part Number: "37442D32334A4B35"
Memory Array: #33
Error Info: No Error
Form Factor: 0x09 (DIMM)
Type: 0x13 (Other)
Type Detail: 0x0080 (Synchronous)
Data Width: 64 bits (+8 ECC bits)
Size: 512 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
Memory Device: #37
Location: "DIMM4"
Manufacturer: "7F4F000000000000"
Serial: "00000000"
Part Number: "4A4D333637513634"
Memory Array: #33
Error Info: No Error
Form Factor: 0x09 (DIMM)
Type: 0x13 (Other)
Type Detail: 0x0080 (Synchronous)
Data Width: 64 bits (+8 ECC bits)
Size: 512 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
...
How to determine which memory modules installed on your ESXi hostאיך למצוא איזה מקלות זיכרון מותקנים בשרת ESXI
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VMWare vSphere 5 is out before short time and I installed a few servers in lab where computer stacked one on another and I am too lazy to move them in order to determine which memory modules installed there and if I can add some RAM.
I remember that on usual deployment of VMWare there is a tab in vSphere client called “Hardware Status” but as I understand from fast look on a few deployments it present only when you connected to vCenter and not standalone ESXi host. So I enabled SSH on ESXi host get into CLI and start to issue every command I remember, but without success. then I decide just to look into /sbin for executable names and take an educated guess about appropriate command. Long story short – the command you need is:
smbiosDump
Which will produce output like below