Linux virtual machine - disk.EnableUUID

I personally prefer FreeBSD operating system to Linux, however, there are applications which is better to run on top of Linux. When playing with Linux, I usually choose Ubuntu. After fresh Ubuntu installation, I realized a lot of entries within log (/var/log/syslog) which is annoying. 

Mar  1 00:00:05 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: add missing path
Mar  1 00:00:05 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: failed to get udev uid: Invalid argument
Mar  1 00:00:05 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: failed to get sysfs uid: Invalid argument
Mar  1 00:00:05 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: failed to get sgio uid: No such file or directory
Mar  1 00:00:10 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: add missing path
Mar  1 00:00:10 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: failed to get udev uid: Invalid argument
Mar  1 00:00:10 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: failed to get sysfs uid: Invalid argument
Mar  1 00:00:10 newrelic multipathd[689]: sda: failed to get sgio uid: No such file or directory

It is worth mentioning that Ubuntu Linux is the Guest OS within a virtual machine running on top of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi host).

After a quick googling I have found several articles with the solution ...

• no /dev/disk/by-id for scsi LUNs on VMWare ESX
• Ubuntu 20.04 multipath configuration

The solution is very simple ...

The problem is that VMWare by default doesn't provide the information needed by udev to generate /dev/disk/by-id entries. The resolution is to put 

 disk.EnableUUID = "TRUE"  

into VM advanced settings.

If you use vSphere Client connected to vCenter, you have to 

1. Power Off particular Virtual Machine
2. Go to Virtual Machine -> Edit Settings
3. Select tab VM Options
4. Expand Advanced section
5. Click EDIT CONFIGURATION
6. Add New Configuration Parameter (disk.EnableUUID with the value TRUE)
7. Save the advanced settings
8. Power On Virtual machine

Below are screenshots from my home lab ...

Hope this helps someone else within the VMware community.