Machine state

[cheerschen]

We know that a virtual machine can be in "PoweredOff", "PoweredOn" and "Suspended" states.

What if I want to keep track of the transient states such as on to off/ off to on/suspended to on/on to suspended in progress? Which VI SDK APIs are for this?

[admin]

you could see which tasks are currently associated with the virtual machine and derive the information from that. See recentTask property on ManagedEntity.

[nitinsahi]

I think I didn't understand your question well..... Do you want to take a report of VM's that for how many hours these were UP,Down,Suspend ??

[cheerschen]

I am writting a "wrapper" above VI SDK, and there is something like "QueryMachineState" method. I am supposed to return 'TransitioningToOn' state instead of 'PoweredOn' for a VM that is in the progress from off to on.