Gathering virtual machine uptime information from Virtual Server

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 provides an interesting set of statistical information about virtual machines through the VMAccountant object. Below is a simple script that will go through all virtual machines on a physical computer and display the information about how long they have been running as reported by their accountant objects:

Set vs = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application")
set vms = vs.VirtualMachines

For Each vm in vms
Wscript.Echo "Virtual machine: " & vm.Name
Wscript.Echo "Uptime: " & vm.Accountant.Uptime
Wscript.Echo
Next

Note that the uptime information is reported in seconds.

Cheers,
Ben