Folks,
First off, may I thank you chaps (and ladies) for many of the interesting posts that I'm seeing on this particular forum. I frequently come here looking for the answer to one problem, and leave with solutions to 3 other things that I didn't know were causing me problems. Great stuff indeed.
Anyhow, on to the main event... similar to Mr. pfuhli here (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/135962), I like the idea of weekly/monthly reporting for my overlords. In part this is motivated by showing how clever I am, but more technically it's to do with capacity planning and such like. It would be great to have a weekly mail that stated something like:
a) x new VMs have been created in the last week (followed by list of names)
b) This adds to y VMs that have been created in the past 4 weeks (or calendar month, or whatever, obvsiouly same mechanism as "a)")
c) z VMs have not been turned on for over 12 weeks, and decommissioing should be considered.
Now, while a snapshot seems to have a .created property, I can't see the same thing for a VM. Does it exist? If not, can we do something clever around the age of a .vmx file, or parse logs/VC events for a relevant entry around VM creation? Option c) may require ingenuity too, since we're essentially looking for something that's absent, or non-present...
Suggestions welcome.
Many thanks,
piglet