Last vm active time?

[ululu]

Hi,

Does someone know How can I get the last time vm shutdown or that last vm active time?

What I would like to do is using API to list up the vms that has been shutdown for more than three month to check

the importance of each vms, so that I can remove the unnessesary vms and reduce the disk space.

I checked VirtualMachineRuntimeInfo or VirtualMachineConfigInfo but there is no such information...

Thanks in advance.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Is this querying against an individual ESX(i) host or vCenter? A tool that can definitely help with this is the new VMware CapacityIQ which has tons of reports and one of which is idle report as you'll need to trend some data to determine which VMs are truly idle, and again this can be done by looking at a VMs usage over time but you'll need to extract all that information.

Regarding the time "last shutdown", you could query this piece of information using VmEvent and specifically VmGuestShutdownEvent and correlate that information. Gathering usage over time will be a little more tricky and again CapIQ does all that for you along with other types of reports against your environment.

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