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title: "show hardware-type"
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Use the `show`` ``hardware-type`` `command to display the current hardware type, <span style="color: #000000">member host platform, and hypervisor details</span> for your appliance.

For IB-FLEX only, you can set the hardware type on an appliance and configure it as an IB-FLEX. For more information, see <span style="color: #0000ff">[*set hardware-type*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=nios86&title=set%20hardware-type&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=35982936)</span>. For information about IB-FLEX, see <span style="color: #0000ff">[*About IB-FLEX*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios86/pages/1103003672)</span>.

# Syntax

`show hardware-type`

This command has no arguments.

# Example

To display the hardware type of an appliance:

`Infoblox > show hardware-type`

`Member hardware type: IB-V825`

`Member host platform = Openstack`

`Member hypervisor = KVM`

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">The</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span>`Member hypervisor`<span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">value differs based on the underlying hypervisor. For example, in Nutanix host platforms, the</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span>`Member hypervisor`<span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">value is displayed as</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span>`HYPERV`<span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="color: #000000">or</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span>`KVM`<span style="color: #000000">. This is because Nutanix AHV supports different types of hypervisors in Windows and Linux platforms.</span>