VMware Memory (VSM_MEMORY_V2)

The VSM_MEMORY_V2 application class contains parameters that indicate how memory is being used by hosts (ESX server) and virtual machines.
These memory parameter specifically measure the

• Amount of memory granted to a host or virtual machine
• Amount of memory being used by a host or virtual machine
• Amount of memory being used by the virtual machine memory control
• Percentage of memory being used versus the amount of memory granted

Application Class Attributes

Attributes (parameters)

The following attributes are available for this monitor type:

• Active Memory (Active)
• Memory Balloon (Balloon)
• Free Memory (Free)
• Granted Memory (Granted)
• Amount of machine memory allocated to virtual machines beyond its reserved amount (Memory_Overhead)
• Amount of physical memory shared across virtual machines (Memory_Shared)
• The rate at which memory is being swapped in from disk (Memory_SwapInRate)
• The rate at which memory is being swapped out to disk (Memory_SwapOutRate)
• Memory Swapped (Memory_Swapped)
• Amount of machine memory used by VMkernel for core functionality (Memory_SystemUsage)
• Memory that contains 0s only (Memory_Zero)
• Percentage of memory over committed (OverCommit)
• Amount of memory that is swapped in (SwapIn)
• Amount of memory that is swapped out (SwapOut)
• Average Amount of memory that is used by swap (SwapUsed)
• Percentage amount of memory that is used by swap (SwapUtilization)
• Total available memory for Host or Virtual Machine (Total)
• Memory Used by Host or Virtual Machine (Used)
• Memory Utilization (Utilization)