Luciano Patrao

I have over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. I have been working with Virtualization for more than 15 years, mainly VMware. I hold VCP DCV 2022, VCAP DCV Design 2023, and VCP Cloud 2023, plus older certifications including VCP6.5-DCV, VMware vSAN Specialist, and an old MCP. I have been a vExpert for 11 consecutive years, plus vExpert vSAN, vExpert NSX, and vExpert Cloud Provider. I was a Veeam Vanguard from 2018 to 2025. My specialties are Virtualization, Storage, and Virtual Backup.I am a Senior VMware and VCF Engineer at Leaseweb, working on enterprise virtualization, cloud, and storage infrastructure at scale. I am also an analyst at GigaOm.I am also a blogger and owner of the blog ProVirtualzone.com, an Object First Ace, and a book author.

VMware: ESXi/vCenter find on which host a VM is running

26/11/201829/06/2013 by Luciano Patrao

Sometimes we need to know on which host is running a VM. Is always a pain to discover this when you don’t have your vCenter running. You can check the VM logs etc.,(looking for something similar to 2012-10-10T02:04:01.999Z| vmx| Hostname=name_of_host) In my opinion, the best option is just run a query directly in the vCenter … Read more