Age of a VM

[kri-2]

Hi,

just wondered if there is a way to get the creation date of a vm.

I could not find anything using the shell (.vmx, vmware-cmd,...), viperltoolkit or the vic.

Any ideas?

Chris

[weinstein5]

I would say take a look at the file creation date of the VMX file for the VM

[ctfoster]

I remember this turning up before...

[ejward]

I was asked that last year and the determination then was ...... no there's no way. The VMX file is not reliable. The date would change every time you make a config change to the VM. In VC 2.5 you can create custom notes fields. One of mine is "VM Creation Date". I'm not sure if you can search on it but, it's a start.

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

In addition to the queries mentioned in the above thread, you could look at the vpx_event table for event_type vim.event.VmDiscoveredEvent / vim.event.VmCreatedEvent / etc.

You can run SELECT distinct (EVENT_TYPE) FROM VPX_EVENT to get a list of all the events that your VC database has recorded.

[kri-2]

thx to all, i will have a look in the database...