Find VM Snapshots with Memory Included using VCF Operations for Logs

We've discussed VCF Operations visibility into VM Snapshots several times:

• VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots

• VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18

• Everything you wanted to know about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations

One piece of information that is missing is the VM Snapshots inclusion of the VMs Memory.

Ideally we'd get this as a Property on the VM Snapshot in VCF Operations, but we don't today (I've opened a feature request for it). Until that happens we do have visibility into it VM Snapshots that include the VMs Memory via Operations for logs. Let's have look.

I initiated a VM Snapshot including the VMs Memory.

Upon conclusion you'll notice this in Operations for Logs (screenshots here are from Operations for Logs 8.18.7).

We can Alert on this by creating an Alert Definition for it.

I'm sending an email notification on this one, but you could send Webhooks as well. Thanks to my colleague Wes Milliron for discovering this log entry and inspiring this blog! Hope it was helpful, enjoy!