Orchestrator get create date of VM

[domrein]

Hi all,

is there a way to get the create Date from the Javascript VCVirtualMachine object?

With PowerCLI you can do this very simple via $vm.CreateDate ($vm from Get-VM) - is there anything similar?

Thanks!

[daphnissov]

This is a vRO question so should be moved to that area.

[iiliev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can get creation time from vCenter events for the VM. Try the following sample code:

var spec = new VcEventFilterSpec();  
spec.eventTypeId = ["VmCreatedEvent"];  
spec.entity = new VcEventFilterSpecByEntity();  
spec.entity.entity = vm;  
spec.entity.recursion = VcEventFilterSpecRecursionOption.self;  
var events = vm.sdkConnection.eventManager.queryEvents(spec);
if (events != null && events.length > 0) {
    System.log("Created on: " + events[0].createdTime);
}

Another option for environments with latest vCenter / ESXi is to check if the property vm.config.createDate is set.