VM deployed or Removed

[Pilu1978]

Is there any other way to determine the number of VMs deployed or removed in a cluster in a week rather than using vmcreatedevent and vmremovedevent as it is not giving me accurate results.

Any help would be appreciated.

[LucD]

You're probably not looking at all the related events.

There are also VmClonedEvent, VmRegisteredEvent...

Which methods do you use to create and remove VMs ?

How far off are the figures you get with what you know was created and removed ?

[Pilu1978]

Thanks for your update. I am using the follwing code currently:

$VIEvent = Get-VIEvent -maxsamples 1000000 -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) -Finish (Get-Date)

$vmcreated =  @($VIEvent | where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmCreatedEvent" -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmBeingClonedEvent" -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmBeingDeployedEvent"})

$vmdeleted =  @($VIEvent | where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmRemovedEvent"})

But it is not giving me accurate results.

Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong.

[LucD]

If you're running the script against a busy vCenter, the number 1000000 might not be big enough.

It's better to use the maximum value you can pass on that parameter.

Does this produce more accurate results ?

$VIEvent = Get-VIEvent -maxsamples ([int]::MaxValue) -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)

$createEvents = "VmCreatedEvent","VmClonedEvent","VmDeployedEvent"
$vmcreated =  @($VIEvent | where {$createEvents -contains $_.Gettype().Name})
$vmdeleted =  @($VIEvent | where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmRemovedEvent"})

[Pilu1978]

Thanks. I will try and let you know. One more thing.

How to segregate this events so that we can determine the numbers cluster wise.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

In the event you can find the clustername under ComputeResource.Name