In ESX you can see recent events in task / events. But there appears to be a limit. since it's saved in a database, shouldn't this list go back as far as you need? Any way to see the ENTIRE task / event list?
This is from the VC not individual ESX hosts, how do we retrieve the list so we can see months or weeks ago?
Well it's not syslog, but I did figure out where this info is. And SQL does keep ALL the events, going back to the beginning, at least our database hasn't purge the old data yet, I have stuff going back to June (when I rebuilt the SQL table)
SQL : Schemas -> dbo -> Tables -> VPX_EVENT
You have to export this from SQL or use a viewer to get this info, but the events, tasks, everything (all details) are there. Now why can't VI simply display the entire table if we want it?
FYI for everyone, I contacted vmware about this and was confirmed to what rparker said...the ONLY way to get this info is to query the database...currently it is not possible to get this detailed historic data from VC...
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