See also related Post: https://davidring.ie/2019/09/18/vxrail-lookup-model-psnt/

In addition to the physical tag at the front of the VxRail appliance you may also leverage PowerCLI, ESXi console or vCenter GUI to pull the ST/SN of each VxRail appliance.

PowerCLI

Get-Hosts -Server VxRailManager_IP -Username administrator@vsphere.local -Password PW |ft sn, hostname

ESXi Console

Per individual host:

/opt/vxrail/tools/ipmitool fru print 17

vCenter UI

With the benefit of the VxRail vCenter Plugin we can reference several pieces of useful info related to hosts including SERIAL Numbers:

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  1. Thanks for the post David! It would be awesome if there was an option to export the host list info from vCenter UI just like you can export a list of VMs you are running on the cluster.

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