ESXi on Local Sata HDD or SD card operating system

I have most of esxi running on the HP Server with SD card.

I have esxi servers mnay locations

as I have not installed these or the person who installed did not transfer, I have no idea where the operating system is running.

Is it possible to do a find the disk OS Esxi powercli news

vsish or esxcfg-info can have this info somewhere for sure.

Thank you

Would this help (I guess that SD card facilities will be displayed as "embedded")

{foreach ($esx in Get-VMHost)

$esxcli = get-EsxCli - VMHost $esx

$bootDev = $esxcli.system.boot.device.get)

{if($bootDev.BootFilesystemUUID)}

If ($bootDev.BootFilesystemUUID [6] - eq "e") {}

Write-Host "$($esx.)". Name.Split('.') (Embedded [0]) ".

}

else {}

$mountPoint = $esxcli.storage.filesystem.list () | where {$_.} {UUID eq - $bootDEV.BootFilesystemUUID} |

Select - ExpandProperty mount point

Write-Host "$($esx.)". Name.Split('.') ([0]) device boot $($mountPoint) ".

}

}

else {}

{if($bootDev.StatelessBootNIC)}

Write-Host "$($esx.)". Name.Split('.') stateless, PXE boot from ([0]) $(bootDev.StatelessBootNIC) ".

}

else {}

Write-Host "$($esx.)". Name.Split('.') PXE Boot from $($bootDev.BootNIC) ([0]).

}

}

}

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