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PeterLageri
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‎04-10-2015 03:22 AM

How do I log what hardware setting were changed on VM from what to what (vCPU, RAM, harddisks a.o.)?

How do I log what hardware setting were changed on VM from what to what (vCPU, RAM, harddisks a.o.)?

The status area only shows that settings were changed.

Best Regards

Peter

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vfk
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‎04-10-2015 06:35 AM

Hi, I think this is logged under vmware.log which is stored in the same directory as virtual machine configuration files.

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PeterLageri
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‎04-24-2015 02:14 PM

Ok,

got any way to make them more readable? I'm having great difficulty identifying changes.

Best Regards

Peter

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Totopolis
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‎10-05-2016 12:47 AM

me too

Tried to find the user added virtual disk to virtual machine - unsuccessfully.

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MKguy
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‎10-05-2016 02:09 AM

Unfortunately the data from vCenter tasks and events is very generic and hard to make sense of in detail or for audit purposes.

At VMworld they demoed a tech preview for the next major release with logging enhancements that are supposed to tackle these shortcomings:

INF8845 - vSphere Logs Grow Up! Tech Preview of Actionable Logging with vRealize Log Insight

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Seniore
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‎10-05-2016 02:20 AM

Hi Peter,

please have a look a the two PowerCLI scipts:

Get Details About VM Task Reconfigure Events – PowerCLI  - Matt Altimar's Blog

https://ssbkang.com/2015/06/18/powercli-report-audit-your-environment/

The first one shows you all "Device change" events,

the 2nd one additionally creates a nice and readable HTML report.

Best regards,

Marcin

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