VM Power Off Date

I created annotations for my virtual computers called LastPowerOn and LastPowerOff, I had planned to transfer the CreationDate from the entrance to the event log for 'VmPoweredOnEvent' and 'VmPoweredOffEvent' respectively.  Unfortunately, it seems that not all the events of power in newspapers are determined by the name of the event.  In vCenter, I view turn the events that do not appear as such.

After trying my hand in this area and short coming, I borrowed a screenplay written by RvdNieuwendijk, which was designed to analyze the event logs VM for exactly this info.  This script also resulted in empty info for multiple servers.  So looking at the event log, this event seems not to appear the same as a manifestation of normal power:

On DRS on the virtual machine
Esx1.Jeff.com
Info
28/10/2011-13:57:25
Power on virtual machine
server100

This is the code I use to test:

Get-VIEvent -Entity $vm -MaxSamples 500 | Sort-Object -Property CreatedTime -Descending | Where-Object { $_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmPoweredOnEvent" } | Select-Object -First 1

I fell the MaxSamples up to 500 to see if that was the problem.

I can find the exact event, so I'm looking for:

Template             : False
Key                  : 11657
ChainId              : 11651
CreatedTime          : 10/28/2011 1:57:25 PM
UserName             : 
Datacenter           : VMware.Vim.DatacenterEventArgument
ComputeResource      : VMware.Vim.ComputeResourceEventArgument
Host                 : VMware.Vim.HostEventArgument
Vm                   : VMware.Vim.VmEventArgument
Ds                   : 
Net                  : 
Dvs                  : 
FullFormattedMessage : DRS powered On server100 on esx1.jeff.com in
                       DataCenter1
ChangeTag            : 
DynamicType          : 
DynamicProperty      :

Any suggestions on where to go from here would be very useful.

I thought to go to the data store and pulling the last modified date date the vmdk to establish a 'rough' power.

Thank you

Jeff

Hi jeff,

Thanks for your question. You found a serious flaw in my script from the thread to get a SSN last turning off date based on events of the virtual machine.

And thanks to your suggestion, it was not difficult for me to change the line:

Where-Object {$_.} GetType(). Name - eq "VmPoweredOnEvent"} | `

in:

Where-Object {$_.} GetType(). Name - eq "VmPoweredOnEvent" - or $_. GetType(). Name - eq "DrsVmPoweredOnEvent"} | `

to solve your problem.

Looking again my previous script, I found two other holes myself. You can probably say: "age comes with insight".

The most serious is that the Get-VIEvent cmdlet returns only by the 100 default events. Maybe it's too small for some VM. So I added the MaxSamples parameter with value of 10000. Even if it is necessary to make the script executed well, it will make the script much slower.

The other minor problem is that the previous script did the Sort-Object cmdlet in the pipeline before the Where-Object cmdlet. It is best to do the opposite. It is much faster because the Sort-Object cmdlet must sort the records less.

Here's the new script will all changes:

function Get-VMLastPoweredOffDate {
  param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
        [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl] $vm)
  process {
    $Report = "" | Select-Object -Property Name,LastPoweredOffDate,UserName
    $Report.Name = $vm.Name
    $Event = Get-VIEvent -Entity $vm -MaxSamples 10000 | `
      Where-Object { $_.GetType().Name -eq "VmPoweredOffEvent" } | `
      Sort-Object -Property CreatedTime -Descending | `
      Select-Object -First 1
    $Report.LastPoweredOffDate = $Event.CreatedTime
    $Report.UserName = $Event.UserName
    $Report
  }
}

function Get-VMLastPoweredOnDate {
  param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
        [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl] $vm)

  process {
    $Report = "" | Select-Object -Property Name,LastPoweredOnDate,UserName
    $Report.Name = $vm.Name
    $Event = Get-VIEvent -Entity $vm -MaxSamples 10000 | `
      Where-Object { $_.GetType().Name -eq "VmPoweredOnEvent" -or $_.GetType().Name -eq "DrsVmPoweredOnEvent"} | `
      Sort-Object -Property CreatedTime -Descending |`
      Select-Object -First 1
    $Report.LastPoweredOnDate = $Event.CreatedTime
    $Report.UserName = $Event.UserName
    $Report
  }
}

New-VIProperty -Name LastPoweredOffDate -ObjectType VirtualMachine -Value {(Get-VMLastPoweredOffDate -vm $Args[0]).LastPoweredOffDate} -Force
New-VIProperty -Name LastPoweredOffUserName -ObjectType VirtualMachine -Value {(Get-VMLastPoweredOffDate -vm $Args[0]).UserName} -Force
New-VIProperty -Name LastPoweredOnDate -ObjectType VirtualMachine -Value {(Get-VMLastPoweredOnDate -vm $Args[0]).LastPoweredOnDate} -Force
New-VIProperty -Name LastPoweredOnUserName -ObjectType VirtualMachine -Value {(Get-VMLastPoweredOnDate -vm $Args[0]).UserName} -Force

Get-VM | Select-Object -property Name,LastPoweredOnDate,LastPoweredOnUserName,LastPoweredOffDate,LastPoweredOffUserName

Best regards, Robert

Post edited by: RvdNieuwendijk added the - Force parameter to the commands of the new VIProperty.

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