Need help PowerCLI with recovery ESXi host Asset Tag Info

In the hope that someone, anyone, will be able to help me understand what I can do wrong and how to use PowerCLI to retrieve valid ESXi host Asset Tag information that appears in the tab material status vCenter. I have absolutely no problem of recovery of the serial numbers of host (sometimes referred to as Service Tags), manufacture, model, part, build, etc., but don't can't seem to be able to interrogate the current numbers of inventory number .

None of the following attributes or property values currently returned the information required and which exists (see image below):

Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [0]. IdentifierValue

Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [1]. IdentifierValue

Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [2]. IdentifierValue

Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo | where {$_.} IdentifierType.Key - eq "assettag" IdentifierValue})

vCenter Server Hardware Status Tab - Asset Tag Info.png

This is the script that I am running. I used PowerCLI Version 5.1:

$VIServer = 'enter vCenter Server Name'


# Add component snap kernel PowerCLI
If (!) () Get-pssnapin-name VMware.VimAutomation.Core - erroraction silentlycontinue)) {}
Add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
}

SE connect-VIServer $VIServer

$HostReport = @)

$VMH = get-VMHost | Get-View | % {}

$Report = "" | Select the host name, Version, build, manufacture, model, series, Asset Tag

$Report.Hostname = $_. Name

$Report.version = $_. Config.Product.Version

$Report.Build = $_. Config.Product.Build

$Report.manufacture = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor

$Report.Model = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.Model

$Report.Serial = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [0]. IdentifierValue

$ Tag = Report.Asset?

$HostReport += $Report

}

$HostReport | Export-Csv «.\HostReport.csv"- NoTypeInformation

Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

Ron thx.

As far as I know, has nothing to do with PowerCLI, this is how vCenter gets this information, and how and where some HW providers make this information available.

With the interface of the CIM, you can dump all the available information and then find exactly the tag died murdered.

See what this returns

import-module CimCmdlets$esxiHostname = "MyESXiServer"$HostUsername = "root"$CIOpt = New-CimSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck -SkipRevocationCheck -Encoding Utf8 -UseSsl$Session = New-CimSession -Authentication Basic -Credential $HostUsername -ComputerName $esxiHostname -port 443 -SessionOption $CIOptGet-CimInstance -CimSession $Session -ClassName CIM_Chassis

You will be asked the password root ESXi.

On some of our older IBM HW, I get the following where we expect the identification sticker.

But the information is there, just to another property.

As we have already mentioned our VMworld session, exploring the CIM API.

There is a lot of information in there

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