vmwareexportevents

Export Events and Tasks in VMware Infrastructure VC

Summary: How to export Virtual Center events.
Date: Around 2010
Refactor: 1 May 2025: Checked links and formatting.

In VMware Infrastructure Virtual Center you can see the events and tasks that has happened recently. However, there is no way to go back further in time if you wish, at least, not right away. There is however a way to export the data you need. Follow these steps to retrieve all needed information.

Open the export tool

Go to File → Export → Export events: vmwareexportevents01.jpg

Select your data

In case you want system events make this selection: vmwareexportevents02.jpg In case you want user tasks make this selection: vmwareexportevents03.jpg

You'll receive a text file which can be opened in any text editor.

vmwareexportevents.txt · Last modified: by 127.0.0.1

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Exception: Git command failed to perform periodic pull: From https://dev.azure.com/getshiftingcom/Documentation/_git/knowledge * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD There is no candidate for rebasing against among the refs that you just fetched. Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no matches on the remote end.

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