is there any way to query vcenter to find possible degradation or power failures via powercli?
You can check for HW status events
Get-VIEvent -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) |
Where-Object {($_ -is [VMware.Vim.EventEx] -and $_.FullFormat -match "^com.vmware.vc.cim.CIMGroupHealthStateChanged")}
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