Can I ask what the "end goal" is here and maybe there is another way to solve this without looking from within the Guest OS?
Some host migrations between vCenters in the past have left this and other virtual machines in this state. My mission is to discover the physical machine that hosts that virtual machine without having to visit the affiliate's datacenter for this.
As a side note, there are tools that you can use outside of the Guest OS such as PowerCLI which will get you the Host that a given Virtual Mchine is running on and also a wealth of information about the Guest OS inside that VM.
How would I use powercli for this without connecting it to a specific vcenter/host?