List of VMs that are created as per the month

[vcpguy]

Can someone please tell me how can I get the No of VMs created in month ?

I need to make a trend line for past 1 year and I want the list for of VMs that were created every month.

Thanks

[rickyelqasem]

I don't normally plug my employers solutions on the forum but Veeam Reporter 4.0 will give waht you need and more.

The issue with doing what you ask in a scripts is "historical data" - Veeam Rep4 logs historical data"

Ricky El-Qasem

VCI/VCP - MCSE - RHCT

[LucD]

You can use the method Carter described in his Find out how many VMs you’re creating a month with this simple script. post.

It's based on Alan's custom attribute method.

An alternative is to use the events and filter out the tasks that created a VM.

See my Events: a great source of information – Part 1 post.

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[vcpguy]

I dont know much about powershell. Can you please tell me how am I suppose to run that script ?

thanks

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Alan made a post, called PowerCLI – Where do I start ?!, that list several sources of information for the beginner. The document from Xtravirt is a good one to start with.

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[vcpguy]

The script mentioned in this link http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2010/03/find-out-how-many-vms-youre-creating-a-month-with-this-... is not complete. Which cmd-let should I use to connect to the VC server ?

Thanks

[LucD]

That is a problem that you will see with several blog posts (mine included).

We leave out the

Connect-VIServer -Server <your-vCenter-or-ESX(i)-server>

statement.

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