A host has failed, which VMs were impacted and restarted by HA?

Someone asked me a question a while back and I figured it was time to write it down… Or in this case to record a video. The vSphere Web Client is a powerful tool when it comes to finding events and problems. This video shows how you can use the vSphere Web Client to figure out which virtual machines were impacted by a host failure and restarted by HA. On top of that I also show you how you can use PowerCLI to list all virtual machines that were restarted recently by HA. No I didn’t write that PowerCLI blurb myself, I elegantly stole it from the infamous PowerCLI guru Jonathan Medd. So if you need the blurb, hit his article and check the “update 2” section as it contains the code for vSphere 5.0 and up. (I tested it on 5.1 and it works as you can see in the video.)