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Wonder how I could resolve the question of which model our VM was created from. In some circles, there are only a handful of models, and each of them is of a particular type of XP, 2K, 2003, etc. is no biggie. With largest deployments with more models and many of a similar (2003 Standard, Windows 2003 Ent) type, it can get more complicated. Or for otherwise this said, reports on which virtual machines were manufactured in what models;

I don't know where to start here Sorry for not posting any code or attempts.

Thank you,

As I know there is no property that shows what model a virtual machine has been deployed.

But, based on the script that I wrote for Monitoring DRS VMotion via Powershell , you can review the task and the event log and extract the information from there.

This script does just that


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$tasknumber = 999
$eventnumber = 100
$serviceInstance = get-view ServiceInstance
$taskMgr = Get-View TaskManager
$eventMgr = Get-View eventManager
$report = @()
$filter = New-Object VMware.Vim.TaskFilterSpec
$filter.Time = New-Object VMware.Vim.TaskFilterSpecByTime
$filter.Time.beginTime = (Get-Date).AddDays(-$days)
$filter.Time.timeType = "startedTime"
$collectionImpl = Get-View ($taskMgr.CreateCollectorForTasks($filter))
$dummy = $collectionImpl.RewindCollector
$collection = $collectionImpl.ReadNextTasks($tasknumber)
while($collection -ne $null){
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                $TemplateDeploy = $false
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                                switch($event.GetType()){
                                        "VMware.Vim.TaskEvent"{
                                                $startTime = $event.CreatedTime
                                        }
                                        "VMware.Vim.VmDeployedEvent" {
                                                $status = $event.FullFormattedMessage
                                                $endTime = $event.CreatedTime
                                                $templateDeploy = $true
                                        }
                                        "VMware.Vim.VmDeployFailedEvent"{
                                            $status = $event.FullFormattedMessage
                                                $endTime = $event.CreatedTime
                                                $templateDeploy = $true
                                        }
                                        "VMware.Vim.VmBeingDeployedEvent"{
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                                                $target = $event.SrcTemplate.Name
                                                $user = $event.UserName
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                                        Default {}
                                }
                        }
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                        $row.EndTime = $endTime
                        $row.VMname = $target
                        $row.Template = $template
                        $row.user = $user
                        $row.Status = $status
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                }
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}
$report | Export-Csv "C:\Clone-Template-Report.csv" -noTypeInformation

With the variable $days at the beginning of the script, you can set how many days you want to go back.

Note that it depends of course how long you keep your tasks and events in your database of VC!

Update : the script will report now also on deployments models failed.

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