Comments on: Who created that VM ?

By: Sybux

Sybux — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:27:51 +0000

Hi,
1st, thanx for your script it help me a lot.
I’ve run it on my vCenter and it returns a little number of result. I’ve combined yours with another one I’ve found on Internet and now it looks in all event.

I’ve added this lines at the begining :
# Go very far in past to get all events and enough
$start = (Get-Date).AddDays(-1999)
$eventNr = 999999

And I’ve changed the $Event blabla to use this parameters.
$Event = $VM | Get-VIEvent -Start $start -MaxSamples $eventNr | Where-Object { $_.Gettype().Name -eq “VmBeingDeployedEvent” -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq “VmCreatedEvent” -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq “VmRegisteredEvent” -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq “VmClonedEvent”}

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:22:36 +0000

Sure, just change the line that currently reads:

$VMs = Get-VM | Sort Name

to the following:

$VMs = Get-Cluster MyCluster | Get-VM | Sort Name

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:03:37 +0000

Could this script be altered to only show VM’s in a particular cluster? Very interested to know who did what in our server cluster, but not interested in VDI cluster for exmample. Thanks

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:26:28 +0000

This is actually a default variable from PowerShell, you can read more here: http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/set-whatif-on-by-default/

By: Doug Crist

Doug Crist — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:59:27 +0000

I’m fairly new to PowerCLI and have a question about the $WhatIfPreference line. I did a find and only found it in line 3. Shouldn’t I see it being checked somewhere farther down in the script? Otherwise, how could it prevent something being written or created?

Thanks,
Doug

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By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:36:57 +0000

Nice one Robert, I like the solution.

By: Robert van den Nieuwendijk

Robert van den Nieuwendijk — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:53:13 +0000

I have changed your “Who created that VM?” script to try to get the creation date from the Active Directory if it can’t be found in the events.

The script is in the VMware Communities:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1728450#1728450

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