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August 16th, 2012 13:00
Report deleted virtual machines
Hi all,
is there a way to report on deleted virtual machines within a given time range ? I want to report all changes for virtual machines, for example added or removed vCPU, vRAM or Storage, but also want to show virtual machines which were removed from vCenter within the time given. Is there anyway to get this from the historical data out of vFoglight ?
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hEINER Wellendorf
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john_s_main
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August 17th, 2012 12:00
Good Question,
Yes, there is likely a way to do almost anything in Foglight.
There are several different VM 'states of being' which are interesting around this discussion:
VM is running
VM is not running
VM was removed from VC
VM's VMDK was removed from the datastore(s)
Foglight maintains the infrastructure objects and metrics after the VM is removed.
The interesting date values you could look at are:
effectiveStartDate = date first data was collected
lastUpdated = last time data was collected for the VM
Also likely to be some other things to look at, such as:
vmState
storage/datastoreUsage
storage/hostStorage/spaceUsed
vFoglight maintains records of changes in vCPU, vRAM, and Storage, so it's just a matter of displaying the data for the desired date range.
I'll have to dig into this a bit, but others may have more knowledge on this subject.