VIEvent Category | Vmware PowerCLI Reference

VI Event Category

Cmdlets are usually implemented around resource operations. The four basic operations are CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE. This set of operations is known as CRUD. Most of the cmdlets support CRUD which are respectively cmdlets that start with the New/Get/Set/Remove cmdlet verbs but they also may have additional operations

Step 1: Retrieve a object by running a Get command

You can READ objects by using Get-VIEvent cmdlet. See example below:

# Retrieves a list of the last fifteen error events on the MyVM1 virtual machine for the user admin.

Get-VIEvent -Entity MyVM1 -Username admin -Types error -MaxSamples 15