VMware servers GSX System Type

[Ole Thomsen_1]

My virtual GSX servers used to display System Type (or Product name?) as "VMware virtual server" or something...

Now they are just "Unknown"? Product name and OS name is blank....

I think this happened when upgrading to GSX 3.0 but I'm not sure.

Regards,
Ole Thomsen

[David Claypool · Accepted solution]

I haven't seen it on GSX, but on ESX it comes back as "VMware Virtual Platform."

This information comes from WMI, so make sure that HP SIM has WBEM services enabled, has a valid password for it and that the WMI Mapper is installed and configured.

[Ole Thomsen_1]

Thanks a lot!

WBEM was enabled, but no user added.

After doing that and running a device identification, they show VMware Virtual Platform as productname and the correct OS.

System Type is still "unknown", but that may be discovered in another task i guess.

Regards,
Ole Thomsen

[David Claypool]

Because VMware tries to appear as close to a physical system, I've yet to find information that could be used as a rule to classify the virtual machine...