Vcenter Vm Identity Info

The Vcenter Vm Identity Info schema contains information about the identity of a virtual machine.

This schema was added in vSphere API 6.7.1.

JSON Example

{
    "name": "string",
    "bios_uuid": "string",
    "instance_uuid": "string"
}

string

name

Required

Virtual machine name.

This property was added in vSphere API 6.7.1.

string

bios_uuid

Required

128-bit SMBIOS UUID of a virtual machine represented as a hexadecimal string in "12345678-abcd-1234-cdef-123456789abc" format.

This property was added in vSphere API 6.7.1.

string

instance_uuid

Required

VirtualCenter-specific 128-bit UUID of a virtual machine, represented as a hexademical string. This identifier is used by VirtualCenter to uniquely identify all virtual machine instances, including those that may share the same SMBIOS UUID.

This property was added in vSphere API 6.7.1.