diff --git a/netbox/templates/virtualization/virtualmachine.html b/netbox/templates/virtualization/virtualmachine.html
index d5ded90ea..1591be6f2 100644
--- a/netbox/templates/virtualization/virtualmachine.html
+++ b/netbox/templates/virtualization/virtualmachine.html
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                   <th scope="row">{% trans "Serial Number" %}</th>
-                  <td>{{ object.serial_number|placeholder }}</td>
+                  <td>{{ object.serial|placeholder }}</td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <th scope="row">{% trans "Tenant" %}</th>
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/api/serializers_/virtualmachines.py b/netbox/virtualization/api/serializers_/virtualmachines.py
index 737d2519d..d9e4f9c6f 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/api/serializers_/virtualmachines.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/api/serializers_/virtualmachines.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class VirtualMachineSerializer(NetBoxModelSerializer):
     class Meta:
         model = VirtualMachine
         fields = [
-            'id', 'url', 'display', 'name', 'status', 'site', 'cluster', 'device', 'serial_number', 'role', 'tenant',
+            'id', 'url', 'display', 'name', 'status', 'site', 'cluster', 'device', 'serial', 'role', 'tenant',
             'platform', 'primary_ip', 'primary_ip4', 'primary_ip6', 'vcpus', 'memory', 'disk', 'description',
             'comments', 'config_template', 'local_context_data', 'tags', 'custom_fields', 'created', 'last_updated',
             'interface_count', 'virtual_disk_count',
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/filtersets.py b/netbox/virtualization/filtersets.py
index 944ae2ad2..ec0831f9f 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/filtersets.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/filtersets.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ class VirtualMachineFilterSet(
         model = VirtualMachine
         fields = (
             'id', 'cluster', 'vcpus', 'memory', 'disk', 'description', 'interface_count', 'virtual_disk_count',
-            'serial_number'
+            'serial'
         )
 
     def search(self, queryset, name, value):
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class VirtualMachineFilterSet(
             Q(comments__icontains=value) |
             Q(primary_ip4__address__startswith=value) |
             Q(primary_ip6__address__startswith=value) |
-            Q(serial_number__icontains=value)
+            Q(serial__icontains=value)
         )
 
     def _has_primary_ip(self, queryset, name, value):
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/forms/bulk_import.py b/netbox/virtualization/forms/bulk_import.py
index 993da1fd5..17efc567a 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/forms/bulk_import.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/forms/bulk_import.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ class VirtualMachineImportForm(NetBoxModelImportForm):
         model = VirtualMachine
         fields = (
             'name', 'status', 'role', 'site', 'cluster', 'device', 'tenant', 'platform', 'vcpus', 'memory', 'disk',
-            'description', 'serial_number', 'config_template', 'comments', 'tags',
+            'description', 'serial', 'config_template', 'comments', 'tags',
         )
 
 
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/forms/filtersets.py b/netbox/virtualization/forms/filtersets.py
index 6d544989c..7c040d948 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/forms/filtersets.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/forms/filtersets.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class VirtualMachineFilterForm(
         FieldSet('region_id', 'site_group_id', 'site_id', name=_('Location')),
         FieldSet(
             'status', 'role_id', 'platform_id', 'mac_address', 'has_primary_ip', 'config_template_id',
-            'local_context_data', 'serial_number', name=_('Attributes')
+            'local_context_data', 'serial', name=_('Attributes')
         ),
         FieldSet('tenant_group_id', 'tenant_id', name=_('Tenant')),
         FieldSet('contact', 'contact_role', 'contact_group', name=_('Contacts')),
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class VirtualMachineFilterForm(
             choices=BOOLEAN_WITH_BLANK_CHOICES
         )
     )
-    serial_number = forms.CharField(
+    serial = forms.CharField(
         required=False,
         label=_('Serial number')
     )
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/forms/model_forms.py b/netbox/virtualization/forms/model_forms.py
index 01f943679..2c60cb46f 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/forms/model_forms.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/forms/model_forms.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ class VirtualMachineForm(TenancyForm, NetBoxModelForm):
     comments = CommentField()
 
     fieldsets = (
-        FieldSet('name', 'role', 'status', 'description', 'serial_number', 'tags', name=_('Virtual Machine')),
+        FieldSet('name', 'role', 'status', 'description', 'serial', 'tags', name=_('Virtual Machine')),
         FieldSet('site', 'cluster', 'device', name=_('Site/Cluster')),
         FieldSet('tenant_group', 'tenant', name=_('Tenancy')),
         FieldSet('platform', 'primary_ip4', 'primary_ip6', 'config_template', name=_('Management')),
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ class VirtualMachineForm(TenancyForm, NetBoxModelForm):
         model = VirtualMachine
         fields = [
             'name', 'status', 'site', 'cluster', 'device', 'role', 'tenant_group', 'tenant', 'platform', 'primary_ip4',
-            'primary_ip6', 'vcpus', 'memory', 'disk', 'description', 'serial_number', 'comments', 'tags',
+            'primary_ip6', 'vcpus', 'memory', 'disk', 'description', 'serial', 'comments', 'tags',
             'local_context_data', 'config_template',
         ]
 
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/migrations/0039_virtualmachine_serial_number.py b/netbox/virtualization/migrations/0039_virtualmachine_serial_number.py
index 9539828ac..014cb4cab 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/migrations/0039_virtualmachine_serial_number.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/migrations/0039_virtualmachine_serial_number.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
     operations = [
         migrations.AddField(
             model_name='virtualmachine',
-            name='serial_number',
+            name='serial',
             field=models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=50),
         ),
     ]
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/models/virtualmachines.py b/netbox/virtualization/models/virtualmachines.py
index 1d8db591c..24f8d4390 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/models/virtualmachines.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/models/virtualmachines.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class VirtualMachine(ContactsMixin, ImageAttachmentsMixin, RenderConfigMixin, Co
         null=True,
         verbose_name=_('disk (GB)')
     )
-    serial_number = models.CharField(
+    serial = models.CharField(
         verbose_name=_('serial number'),
         blank=True,
         max_length=50
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/search.py b/netbox/virtualization/search.py
index a6d9ffed0..d1f192cee 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/search.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/search.py
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ class VirtualMachineIndex(SearchIndex):
     model = models.VirtualMachine
     fields = (
         ('name', 100),
-        ('serial_number', 300),
+        ('serial', 300),
         ('description', 500),
         ('comments', 5000),
     )
-    display_attrs = ('site', 'cluster', 'device', 'tenant', 'platform', 'status', 'serial_number', 'role', 'description')
+    display_attrs = ('site', 'cluster', 'device', 'tenant', 'platform', 'status', 'serial', 'role', 'description')
 
 
 @register_search
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/tables/virtualmachines.py b/netbox/virtualization/tables/virtualmachines.py
index e26fc37b6..7eb7c9397 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/tables/virtualmachines.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/tables/virtualmachines.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class VirtualMachineTable(TenancyColumnsMixin, ContactsColumnMixin, NetBoxTable)
         fields = (
             'pk', 'id', 'name', 'status', 'site', 'cluster', 'device', 'role', 'tenant', 'tenant_group', 'vcpus',
             'memory', 'disk', 'primary_ip4', 'primary_ip6', 'primary_ip', 'description', 'comments', 'config_template',
-            'serial_number', 'contacts', 'tags', 'created', 'last_updated',
+            'serial', 'contacts', 'tags', 'created', 'last_updated',
         )
         default_columns = (
             'pk', 'name', 'status', 'site', 'cluster', 'role', 'tenant', 'vcpus', 'memory', 'disk', 'primary_ip',
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_filtersets.py b/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_filtersets.py
index 2c7949c06..d2e6cc05f 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_filtersets.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_filtersets.py
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ class VirtualMachineTestCase(TestCase, ChangeLoggedFilterSetTests):
                 disk=1,
                 description='foobar1',
                 local_context_data={"foo": 123},
-                serial_number='111-aaa'
+                serial='111-aaa'
             ),
             VirtualMachine(
                 name='Virtual Machine 2',
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ class VirtualMachineTestCase(TestCase, ChangeLoggedFilterSetTests):
                 memory=2,
                 disk=2,
                 description='foobar2',
-                serial_number='222-bbb'
+                serial='222-bbb'
             ),
             VirtualMachine(
                 name='Virtual Machine 3',
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ class VirtualMachineTestCase(TestCase, ChangeLoggedFilterSetTests):
         self.assertEqual(self.filterset(params, self.queryset).qs.count(), 0)
 
     def test_serial_number(self):
-        params = {'serial_number': ['111-aaa', '222-bbb']}
+        params = {'serial': ['111-aaa', '222-bbb']}
         self.assertEqual(self.filterset(params, self.queryset).qs.count(), 2)
 
 
diff --git a/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_views.py b/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_views.py
index eb4ecd37b..0daa55a5c 100644
--- a/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/netbox/virtualization/tests/test_views.py
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ class VirtualMachineTestCase(ViewTestCases.PrimaryObjectViewTestCase):
             'vcpus': 4,
             'memory': 32768,
             'disk': 4000,
-            'serial_number': 'aaa-111',
+            'serial': 'aaa-111',
             'comments': 'Some comments',
             'tags': [t.pk for t in tags],
             'local_context_data': None,