I read elsewhere that the events logged in virtual center dont ALL go into one file, that eventually older ones get zipped up and I am guessing get-VIEvent only works with the active file. I changed the max value to 1000 and still get the same result of not much more than a month's worth of dates for when a VM has been powered off. Unless what I read is wrong. I just still want to know what file this cmdlet works on.
My basic motivation is I want to see if some VMs haven't been turned off in a very long time so I can justify to my boss these basically are not in use and should be deleted.
...ar