Counters and Categories for Memory Performance

This table contains the values for each category of the counters that measure Memory performance.  

GROUP NAME: mem

Counter Name VC STATS LEVEL Category Value
usage avg: 1

min: 4

max: 4

unit Percentage: precision to 1/100 percentage point (1 = 0.01%). A value between 0 and 10,000.
description Memory currently in use. This is active memory as a percentage of total available memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources, and resource pools
granted avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory available for use.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources, and resource pools
active avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory that is actively used.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine and compute resource
shared avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of shared memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources, and resource pools
zero avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory used by zero'ed pages.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources, and resource pools
unreserved avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of unreserved memory. This is the memory that is not reserved by VM memory reservation, VM overhead memory reservation and other system resource reservations.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host
swapused avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of swap space used.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, compute resources
sharedcommon avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of shared, common memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host
heap avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory allocated for heap.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host
heapfree avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Free space in the heap.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host
state 2
unit number
description Represents the state of memory ballooning in the VM.
statistic type absolute
rollup type latest
entity host
swapped avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory that has been swapped already.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine, resource pools
swaptarget avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Target amount of memory that is going to be swapped.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine
swapinRate 1
unit KBps
description Rate at which memory is being swapped in from disk.
statistic type rate
rollup type average
entity host
swapoutRate 1
unit KBps
description Rate at which memory is being swapped out to disk.
statistic type rate
rollup type average
entity host
swapin avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory swapped in.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine
swapout avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory swapped out.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine
vmmemctl avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of memory that is currently ballooned.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine, resource pools, compute resources
vmmemctltarget avg: 2

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Target amount of memory that is going to be ballooned.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine
consumed avg: 1

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of host memory consumed by the virtual machine for guest memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity virtual machine, computer resources and resource pools
overhead avg: 1

min: 4

max: 4

unit KB
description Amount of system memory management overhead.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources, and resource pools
reservedCapacity 2
unit MB
description Amount of memory that is reserved capacity.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources
totalmem 1
unit KB
description Same as VMware DRS Effective Memory resources available.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average
entity compute resources
mementitlement 1
unit MB
description The amount of memory resources that the scheduler thinks the VM/resource pool should receive. This is calculated based on the current estimated memory demand and resource policies (i.e. reservation, limit and shares) set for all VM/resource pool in the host/cluster.
statistic type rate
rollup type latest
entity virtual machine and resource pools.