It depends on which UUID you're referring to, there are a few such as bios UUID or vCenter UUID for each VM?
You can easily retrieve these two from the Service Console with the following:
[root@himalaya ~]# grep -i uuid.bios /vmfs/volumes/4a31aece-e34d675a-72cf-003048d9586a/VIMA/VIMA.vmx uuid.bios = "50 34 d5 e6 3a dd 63 86-7d 1e 01 44 95 96 f1 69"
[root@himalaya ~]# grep -i vc.uuid /vmfs/volumes/4a31aece-e34d675a-72cf-003048d9586a/VIMA/VIMA.vmx vc.uuid = "5034638b-7aa2-3ca2-b07a-17fa3c4f5041"
Of course you can easily automate this through a simple for loop with the following snippet of code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in $(vmware-cmd -l);
do
vmname=$(grep -i displayName ${i} | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/"//g')
vc_uuid=$(grep -i vc.uuid ${i} | awk -F "=" '{print $2}' | sed 's/"//g')
bios_uuid=$(grep -i uuid.bios ${i} | awk -F "=" '{print $2}' | sed 's/"//g')
echo -e "${vmname}\t${vc_uuid}\t${bios_uuid}"
done
and the output looks like the following:
dhcp-test 50 34 27 4a b3 62 f6 a9-dc d3 d7 4c 62 a2 41 e1 50 34 83 80 94 d6 17 0e-fa bd 46 4a 7d 68 00 d2 ThinStation-Dev 50 02 8a dd 13 71 a3 1d-eb f6 c7 03 8e bf be 52 56 4d 11 63 bc 02 7c a1-ab 26 15 58 ff 5d ff 69 NATbox 50 34 e8 48 4f d5 fc 62-f7 5f ae 8d fd ec d3 da 50 34 be 4c b3 e0 6c e9-09 28 7b cf 33 0f de 05 Thinapp 50 34 c5 6f 6b 6f c4 98-b8 58 41 c9 a4 11 c1 8b 50 34 a6 cc f5 7a e0 a1-70 9a 16 60 d2 7e 08 9a hyper-clean 50 02 2c 7a 57 41 06 52-ee c1 03 e6 b3 ed 28 2d 42 02 5f e1 e8 84 1e 92-1a bb c3 16 17 4d 59 6a scmom.6252009 50 02 12 46 0d 36 3c 88-bf ce 6c b6 d0 77 31 a6 42 02 54 93 c9 f3 06 9f-4b cd d1 a7 41 03 ff 41 hyper-dope 52 94 0c ac 16 13 3b 1a-da c8 c6 0e 9d 8e 7a c8 42 02 84 d9 54 05 0c 36-34 16 fe 3f a5 23 77 65 ESX-Kickstart 50 34 f1 64 57 1c 48 48-81 13 56 be 87 be a3 e7 50 34 8e 50 8c 33 a0 2b-72 fa 4f 31 a5 ad 35 68
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I tried following as told but no output 
/vmfs/volumes/7.3IBM-FCP-DV/fcp-dv-vm4-suse
fcp-dv-vm4-suse_1-flat.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse-flat.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmsd vmware-10.log vmware-13.log vmware.log
fcp-dv-vm4-suse_1.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse.nvram fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmx vmware-11.log vmware-14.log
fcp-dv-vm4-suse-f4ad2274.vswp fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmdk fcp-dv-vm4-suse.vmxf vmware-12.log vmware-15.log
I am more interested to find the UUID of this VM.
As you can see all UUID of datastore can be availble directly from the pointed ID. Similarly i need the command to get UUID of all VMs in a perticular Datastore.
It is require for my script.
total 5132
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 04:14 3e6d7f65-2077c20a
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 1400 Feb 10 05:33 476adf87-57213144-faa9-00145efda4fa
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 2660 Jul 6 22:03 49c17932-0a6064b1-5fbf-00145efda4fc
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 Jun 2 20:22 4a166013-ebed2665-9469-00145efda4fc
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 Jul 6 22:17 4a2bd77f-308cc246-03c0-00145efda4fc
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1260 Jul 14 09:51 4a2ca556-3affa39b-e79a-00145efda4fc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 12 22:25 5121dee3-b16eb4d2
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 04:15 6af39d1a-a9d5014f
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Aug 4 00:08 732-2_NFS_DV_esx1 -> 5121dee3-b16eb4d2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV -> 49c17932-0a6064b1-5fbf-00145efda4fc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV-temp -> 4a2bd77f-308cc246-03c0-00145efda4fc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV-temp1 -> 4a166013-ebed2665-9469-00145efda4fc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 7.3IBM-FCP-DV-temp3 -> 4a2ca556-3affa39b-e79a-00145efda4fc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 4 00:08 local -> 476adf87-57213144-faa9-00145efda4fa
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Aug 4 00:08 nfs_ds1 -> 6af39d1a-a9d5014f
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Aug 4 00:08 nfs_ds2 -> 3e6d7f65-2077c20a
Are you looking for the VM's UUID or the Datastore UUID? What you've shown me is the Datastore UUID which can be found for each VM by doing vmware-cmd -l and you'll get all the VMs + their Datastore UUID path.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
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