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Do you have vCenter Server, you can look in the tasks and events?
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Do you have vCenter Server, you can look in the tasks and events?

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Yes, I have that licensed. &nbsp;Entering the VM name, that appears to only go back 1 day.<br />
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--Ben
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Yes, I have that licensed.  Entering the VM name, that appears to only go back 1 day.

--Ben

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Nice! &nbsp;I hadn't used PoweCLI before and wasn't even sure before now if it was a client package or not. &nbsp;That did the trick. <br />
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Much appreciated!<br />
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--Ben
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Nice!  I hadn't used PoweCLI before and wasn't even sure before now if it was a client package or not.  That did the trick.

Much appreciated!

--Ben

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Hi,<br />
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Looked through the log file entries for this VM from the events.csv file and didn't find any triggered alarm information. &nbsp;Is there another file I should be looking through?<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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--Ben
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Hi,

Looked through the log file entries for this VM from the events.csv file and didn't find any triggered alarm information.  Is there another file I should be looking through?

Thanks!

--Ben

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Hi,<br />
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I have a VM in 5.1 that has triggered a high-cpu alarm occasionally over the last few days. &nbsp;I'd like to go back in time and see when this started. &nbsp;Is there any way to do that? &nbsp;Tried searching the log files with little luck.<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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--Ben
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Hi,

I have a VM in 5.1 that has triggered a high-cpu alarm occasionally over the last few days.  I'd like to go back in time and see when this started.  Is there any way to do that?  Tried searching the log files with little luck.

Thanks!

--Ben

vSphere alarm audit trail

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.