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MariusRoma
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Recording and displaying tasks

In the lower part of the vSphere Client I can see the most recent tasks, i.e. VM power on and power off, snapshot and so on.

How can I see the tasks occurred, let's say, four days ago?

How can I configure a vSphere ESXi hosts and/or a vCenter to keep record of tasks for at least 15 days?

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marius


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zXi_Gamer
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Well, you just have to export it from

Select File > Export > Export Events.

I am not sure of any 3rd party solutions for this purpose. I will ping if I come across any

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zXi_Gamer
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Well, the tasks/events which you are seeing is a part of query from the simple database query. In a vsphere client on a single host, I am not sure, if you can increase the retention policy.

However, on a vSphere Center, you can increase it by

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select Administration > vCenter Server Settings to display the vCenter Server Settings dialog box.

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Select Database Retention Policy.

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(Optional)  SelectTasks retained for, and enter a value in days in the text box.

Information about tasks performed on this vCenter Server system will be discarded after the specified number of days.

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(Optional)  SelectEvents retained for, and enter a value in days in the text box.

Information about events for this vCenter Server system will be discarded after the specified number of days.

William22
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Hi

Welcome to the communities.

If you want of performance monitoring purpose use some 3rd party monitoring utility.

  

  

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MariusRoma
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Thank you for the answer.

If I keep the "SelectTask retained for" and "SelectEvents retained for" unchecked tasks ans events are not deleted, correct?

So, my question is: how can I display the tasks and/or events occurred let's say a week ago?

About 3rd party monitoring utilitues, is there anyune you can suggest?

Regards

marius

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zXi_Gamer
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Well, you just have to export it from

Select File > Export > Export Events.

I am not sure of any 3rd party solutions for this purpose. I will ping if I come across any

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