{"id":1154,"date":"2014-09-19T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T01:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2014-09-19T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T01:05:54","slug":"vmware-esxi-common-information-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"VMware ESXi &#8211; Common Information Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Version: VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5.<\/p>\n<p>To determine the hardware in your VMware ESXi host, you can access the Common Information Model (CIM) data using a VMware provided shell script when you install ESXi.<\/p>\n<p>Note: You have to have ssh enabled.<\/p>\n<p>I found it easiest to just run the script and search the output from the less command.<\/p>\n<p>Once logged via ssh as root:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>~ # \/bin\/cim-diagnostic.sh > tmp.fil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>~ # less tmp.fil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my case, I was looking for specific physical memory information, so I searched for PhysicalMemory.<\/p>\n<p>I found the following useful to determine the categories in the output:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>~ # egrep &#8220;^Dumping&#8221; tmp.fil<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_Namespace<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_RegisteredProfile<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_Sensor<br \/>\nDumping instances of OMC_RawIpmiSensor<br \/>\nDumping instances of OMC_RawIpmiEntity<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_ComputerSystem<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_Chassis<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_SoftwareIdentity<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_Memory<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_PhysicalMemory<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_Processor<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_LogRecord<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_RecordLog<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_EthernetPort<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_PowerSupply<br \/>\nDumping instances of CIM_PCIDevice<br \/>\nDumping instances of VMware_StorageExtent<br \/>\nDumping instances of VMware_Controller<br \/>\nDumping instances of VMware_StorageVolume<br \/>\nDumping instances of VMware_Battery<br \/>\nDumping instances of VMware_SASSATAPort\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version: VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5. To determine the hardware in your VMware ESXi host, you can access the Common Information Model (CIM) data using a VMware provided shell script when you install ESXi. Note: You have to have ssh enabled. I found it easiest to just run the script and search the output from [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[384,173,33],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-cim","tag-hardware","tag-vmware"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}