The Get-VIEvent cmdlet can be used to retrieve information about the events on a vCenter Server system. The syntax of the Get-VIEvent cmdlet is as follows:

Get-VIEvent [[-Entity] <VIObject[]>] [-Start <DateTime>] [-Finish <DateTime>] [-Username <String>] [-MaxSamples <Int32>] [-Types <EventCategory[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

There are no required parameters for every command.

If you don't specify a value for the –Start, -End, and –MaxSamples parameters, the default maximum number of objects returned will be 100. If you want to specify the maximum value possible for the –MaxSamples parameter, you can use –MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue). This is a .NET notation and it is the equivalent of 2,147,483,647.

You can specify Error, Info, or Warning as the value of the –Types parameter in order to retrieve the events of the specified types only. For example, to retrieve a maximum of 50 error events from the error events...