Today, I have some quick-and-easy VI Toolkit ‘Get-VIEvent’ one-liners for you. Let’s get started right away:
To get all events relating to a certain Virtual Machine, try this:
Get-VM “MyVMName” | Get-VIEvent | Format-Table CreatedTime, FullFormattedMessage -AutoSize
To get all errors from the past 24 hours, enter:
Get-VIEvent -Start (Get-Date).AddHours(-24) -Type Error | Format-Table CreatedTime, FullFormattedMessage -AutoSize
To get all errors related to a cluster, type:
Get-Cluster “MyClusterName” | Get-VIEvent -Type Error | Format-Table CreatedTime, FullFormattedMessage -AutoSize
Finally, to get all events related to DRS:
Get-VIEvent | Where {$_.FulFormattedMessage -match “DRS”} | Format-Table CreatedTime, FullFormattedMessage -AutoSize
As you can see, the possabilities are endless!
Enjoy!