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title: 'Quick Tip: Get vCenter Instance UUID via SSH'
url: 'https://patrik.kernstock.net/blog/quick-tip-get-vcenter-instance-uuid-via-ssh'
markdown: 'https://patrik.kernstock.net/blog/quick-tip-get-vcenter-instance-uuid-via-ssh.md'
date: '2020-12-04'
description: 'That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get the instanceUuid in following configuration file /etc/vmware-vpx/instance.cfg: $ cat /etc/vmware-vpx…'
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  category:
    - VMware
    - vSphere
  tag:
    - QuickTip
    - vCenter
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# [Quick Tip: Get vCenter Instance UUID via SSH](https://patrik.kernstock.net/blog/quick-tip-get-vcenter-instance-uuid-via-ssh)

   December 4, 2020  (updated January 6, 2021)   1 min 

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That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get the `instanceUuid` in following configuration file `/etc/vmware-vpx/instance.cfg`:

```text
$ cat /etc/vmware-vpx/instance.cfg
applicationDN=dc\=virtualcenter,dc\=vmware,dc\=int
instanceUuid=fd8cbae6-caaf-4641-bcfb-5c1f955a7839
ldapPort=389
ldapInstanceName=VMwareVCMSDS
ldapStoragePath=/etc/vmware-vpx/
```

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