diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index e744cbcc8..d0ff144e9 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ switch =>  {
  },
   },
 vpd => {
-    cols => [qw(node serial mtm side asset comments disable)],
+    cols => [qw(node serial mtm side asset uuid comments disable)],
     keys => [qw(node)],
     table_desc => 'The Machine type, Model, and Serial numbers of each node.',
  descriptions => {
@@ -755,6 +755,7 @@ vpd => {
   mtm => 'The machine type and model number of the node.  E.g. 7984-6BU',
   side => 'The side information for the BPA/FSP',
   asset => 'A field for administators to use to correlate inventory numbers they may have to accomodate',
+  uuid => 'The UUID applicable to the node',
      comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
      disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",
  },
diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm
index 9f712a4b1..bff323e17 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ sub grab_table_data{ #grab table data relevent to VM guest nodes
   my $cfghash = shift;
   my $callback=shift;
   my $vmtab = xCAT::Table->new("vm");
+  my $vpdtab = xCAT::Table->new("vpd");
   my $hmtab = xCAT::Table->new("nodehm");
   my $nttab = xCAT::Table->new("nodetype");
   my $sitetab = xCAT::Table->new("site");
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ sub grab_table_data{ #grab table data relevent to VM guest nodes
     $callback->({data=>["Cannot open vm table"]});
     return;
   }
+  if ($vpdtab) {
+      $cfghash->{vpd} = $vpdtab->getNodesAttribs($noderange,['uuid']);
+  }
   $cfghash->{vm} = $vmtab->getNodesAttribs($noderange,['node','host','migrationdest','cfgstore','storage','memory','cpus','nics','bootorder','virtflags']);
   my $mactab = xCAT::Table->new("mac",-create=>1);
   my $nrtab= xCAT::Table->new("noderes",-create=>1);
diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
index eae310c6f..f7170fd8f 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
@@ -213,14 +213,18 @@ sub build_diskstruct {
 }
 sub getNodeUUID {
     my $node = shift;
+    if ($confdata->{vpd}->{$node}->[0] and $confdata->{vpd}->{$node}->[0]->{uuid}) {
+        return $confdata->{vpd}->{$node}->[0]->{uuid};
+    }
     if ($confdata->{mac}->{$node}->[0]) { #a uuidv1 is possible, generate that for absolute uniqueness guarantee
         my $mac = ($confdata->{mac}->{$node}->[0];
         $mac =~ s/\|.*//;
         $mac =~ s/!.*//;
-        return xCAT::Utils::genUUID(mac=>$mac);
+        $updatetable->{vpd}->{$node}={uuid=>xCAT::Utils::genUUID(mac=>$mac)};
     } else {
-        return xCAT::Utils::genUUID();
+        $updatetable->{vpd}->{$node}={uuid=>xCAT::Utils::genUUID()};
     }
+    return $updatetable->{vpd}->{$node};
 
 }
 sub build_nicstruct {