getting task events from 4/1/2016 on vm

[tdubb123]

how do I get task events on a vm from date 4/1/2016 to 4/30/2016?

get-vievents only gets the events. what about tasks?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

A Task fires a TaskEvent, you could do something like this

$start = Get-Date "April 1 2016"

$finish = Get-Date "April 30 2016"

$vm = Get-VM -Name MyVM

Get-VIEvent -Entity $vm -Start $start -Finish $finish -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) |

where{$_ -is [VMWare.Vim.TaskEvent]}

As an alternative, have a look at my Task Data Mining – An improved Get-Task

[tdubb123]

Thanks Lucd