With vSphere 6.7 web services SOAP API includes the creation date of a Virtual Machine and will be persisted with the life-cycle of the VM itself.
You can get it from Virtual Machine -> Config -> createDate.
Earlier to 6.7, we can track the VM Creation Time using EventManager. We should create an EventFilterSpec to filter the events by Virtual Machine creation or deployed, Registered or Cloned Events.
new String[]{“VmCreatedEvent”, “VmBeingDeployedEvent”, “VmRegisteredEvent”, “VmClonedEvent”}
