I should add that the experiment was run on Bionic.

I did however run this on Eoan and wasn't able to replicate the issue.

Thanks again!

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Title:
  dmidecode does not byte-swap for SMBIOS >= 2.6

Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hi,

  On VMWare 6.5 and higher (HW version 13 and higher) when decoding
  /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial dmidecode produces an output whereby
  the first 16 characters have been reversed in comparison to
  /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid.

  This manifests itself by breaking provisioning in Kubernetes and could
  cause other issues down the line. Other OS such as redhat have already
  patched this in their releases.

  A demonstration of the issue can be found in this pastebin:

  https://pastebin.canonical.com/p/qRfrpHXwGs/

  VMWare Issue: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/53609

  Cheers!

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