vSphere tasks are activities and actions that occur on an object within the vSphere inventory. What to read next View TasksTasks represent system activities that do not complete immediately, such as migrating a virtual machine. For example, powering off a virtual machine is a task. You can perform this task manually every evening, or you can set up a scheduled task to power off the virtual machine every evening . Schedule TasksYou can schedule tasks to run once in the future or multiple times, at a recurring interval.