NVME disks serial number is abstracted in windows VM

Narayanareddy, Nandish 0 Reputation points
2024-04-30T04:28:41.4466667+00:00

Hi Team ,  I see that VMware is abstracting disk serial numbers for nvme disks and is presenting generic number like VMWare NVME_0000 for all the nvme disks mapped to windows VM via VMware. Is there any utility where we can get the actual disk numbers? PFA GetPhysicalDisk o/p...

Get-PhysicalDisk

Number FriendlyName SerialNumber MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size


0 VMware Virtual NVMe Disk VMWare NVME_0000 SSD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 78 GB

1 VMware Virtual NVMe Disk VMWare NVME_0000 SSD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 12 GB. 

Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object FriendlyName, DeviceID, SerialNumber

FriendlyName DeviceID SerialNumber


VMware Virtual NVMe Disk 0 VMWare NVME_0000

VMware Virtual NVMe Disk 1 VMWare NVME_0000

Get-StorageFirmwareInformation -PhysicalDisk (Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object { $_.DeviceID -eq "1" })

Object : MSFT_PhysicalDisk (ObjectId = "{1}\WIN-P4NBT6MH66N\root/Microsoft/Win...)

SupportsUpdate : False

NumberOfSlots : 1

ActiveSlotNumber : 1

SlotNumber : {1}

IsSlotWritable : {False}

FirmwareVersionInSlot : {1.0} <<<<<<<<

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