Check VMware ESXi Hardware information by smbiosDump

If you want to check your hardware information or more details about your servers to do some operation like changing or increasing physical resources, you need to power-off or reboot the server to check the POST Process information. However, because of being operational, you may not be able to do that. So there is a good command to help you in this situation: smbiosDump.

For instance to check your CPU, memory, NIC and Power configurations:

1. smbiosDump | grep –A 4 ‘Physical Memory Array’  #Total Slot and Max Size of Memory
2. smbiosDump | grep –A 12 ‘Memory Device’           #Type and Size of each Slot
3. smbiosDump | grep –A 12 ‘CPU’                             #Processors Detail, Voltage,Clock & Cache
4. smbiosDump | grep –A 4 ‘NIC’                                #Network Adapters and iLO  Details (HP)
5. smbiosDump | grep –A 3 ‘Power’                            #Power Supply and Part Number