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BV RMS - Need help using this to identify physical vs. virtual linux servers

  • 1.  BV RMS - Need help using this to identify physical vs. virtual linux servers

    Posted Feb 04, 2009 01:00 PM

    I am trying to use BV 8.x to identify which servers in my inventory are physical and which are virtual.  I could gather this information by logging on to each one and issuing commands on the linux cli but my environment is large and I don't have time to do that.

     

    Has anyone tried to do this and were you successful?  If yes how did you do it?

     

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: BV RMS - Need help using this to identify physical vs. virtual linux servers

    Posted Feb 09, 2009 05:44 PM

    VMWare emulates the NIC that the guest operating system sees, and in so doing, it uses a MAC address prefix registered to VMWare by the IEEE.  The MAC prefix is the first three octets of the six octet MAC address.  I don't remember what they are offhand, but VMWare's MAC prefixes are well-known.  If you compare the guest-OS-reported MAC addresses of your virtual machines versus your physical machines, you'll see a pattern.  If you can then figure out a way to get RMS to filter on that, you'll be golden.

     

    KDH