Vmware change disk uuid windows

First open the Disk Management console diskmgmt. Submit a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Search for:. Spend time on your business, not on your servers. Latest Server Management. VM Vmware Windows windows r2. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Software activations for Rockwell work in a very strict manner, so much so that I'm concerned about whether its going to be viable to restore the AssetCentre server Virtual Machine to a different host in the event of a system failure.

The software activations are locked to the virtual machine using the serial number of the hard drive. You can also choose to lock it to the MAC address of the virtual machine. Are either of these two things something that can be customized and edited using VMWare? Will they automatically change if I host the virtual machine using a different Virtual Server? I've looked inside the. The MAC address can be edited under 'Advanced properties' of your network adapter.

It should also be in the. I found this is mine:. If you say you moved it then all ID's stay the same. I am also dealing with AssetCentre which we have virtualized in VMware and have bound to the disk serial number. I've been trying to figure out how to display the disk serial number. Thanks for the information on how to do that within FactoryTalk.

I also finally found that just doing a DIR in a command prompt in any folder on that drive shows it at the top. I just cloned our server to another Cluster and it appears that the disk serial number stayed the same. I tested it and it did successfully change the serial number which FactoryTalk noticed after rebooting. Based on my testing of the clone I don't think that I will need it, but I wanted to see if it worked. Can you clarify what you mean by the serial number of the disk?

How would you normally read it? So I found out that VMware changes Hard Disk serial number 8 character Alpha-Numeric code somehow bound to a Hard Drive or Volume when you make a clone, and I haven't found a way to manually change it back.

Since the MAC Address is the only thing I know of that you can manually configure in ESXi on a virtual machine, we reworked our activation's and now they're all bound to the MAC address of the primary network adapter. Disk was not changed, replaced or removed.

It was all the time in its bay and still is there. Asking as that is another possibility over human intervention but still, vSAN would have had to see it as a blank disk with no partitions for that to occur.

Regardless, looking at the inaccessible Objects it is clear that they were not in a redundant state when the failure occurred e. APD Owner: esxi-2 Size: 0. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.

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