Tools for Extended Guest
Statistics
As of the vSphere 6.0 release, VMware Tools
have expanded support for guest operating system statistics. Rather than
offering a fixed set of statistics after calling
VMGuestLib_UpdateInfo() , a larger
and extensible set of statistics are available by calling
VMGuestLib_StatGet() , or by using
the CLI.
Guest OS and Statistics Fetch Guest Statistics Interfaces Fetching a List of Statistics NULL , or "" ). The returned buffer contains a list of available metric categories. The list can be emitted in any of four supported formats. The text format is recommended for user interaction; machine-parsable formats xml , json , and yaml are recommended for program interaction.Metadata Fields Metrics Examples