Metrics collected by VMware ETLs
This topic lists Configuration and Performance metrics in TrueSight Capacity Optimization collected by VMware ETL modules for entities such as Virtual Hosts, Clusters, VMs, Resource Pools, Datastores, Datastore Clusters, and data centers.
Note
If resolution of data collection from vCenter is more than the specified aggregation period, then the metrics are not aggregated at the specified aggregation period. The aggregation occurs at the default aggregation period.
Virtual Host configuration metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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BYDISK_MODEL | The model of the disk. | Yes | Yes |
BYDISK_SIZE | The disk size in bytes. | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_ID | The id of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_NAME | The Name of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_SIZE | The total size of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_TYPE | The Type of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_URL | The URL of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | Yes |
BYIF_BANDWIDTH | The bandwidth of the network interface. | Yes | Yes |
BYLDISK_EXTENTS_NAMES | The name of the partitions used to extent a VMFS filesystem, for each VMFS filesystem of the system. | Yes | Yes |
BYLDISK_SIZE | The logical disk size in bytes. | Yes | Yes |
CLUSTER_NAME | The name of the cluster to which this server belongs. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_CORES_PER_SOCKET | The CPU cores per socket. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_FAMILY | The architecture type of CPU. | Yes | No |
CPU_MHZ | The frequency of each physical CPU core | Yes | Yes |
CPU_MODEL | The hardware model of CPU. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_NUM | The number of CPU cores physically on the system | Yes | Yes |
CPU_PACKAGE_NUM | The number of CPU packages physically installed on the system sockets. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_THREADS_PER_CORE | The CPU threads per core. | Yes | No |
CPU_TOTAL_MHZ | The total frequency of CPU (the sum of each physical CPU core) | Yes | Yes |
DISK_NUM | The number of disks on the system. | Yes | No |
HOST_ID | The hardware identifier of the host. For VMWare hosts, it is the UUID. | Yes | No |
HOST_CONNECTION_STATE | Virtual Host Connection State (connected|disconnected|notResponding) | Yes | |
HW_MODEL | The hardware model of the system. | Yes | Yes |
HW_VENDOR 1 | The hardware vendor of the system. | Yes | No |
LCPU_NUM | The total number of Logical CPUs on the system. | Yes | No |
LDISK_NUM | The number of logical disks in the system. | Yes | Yes |
MAINTENANCE_MODE | The value indicates whether the system is in maintenance mode. Value is 1 if system is in maintenance mode, 0 otherwise. | Yes | Yes |
NETIF_NUM | The number of network interfaces on the system. | Yes | Yes |
NET_BANDWIDTH | The network bandwidth. | Yes | Yes |
NET_IP_ADDRESS | The main IP address of the system. | Yes | No |
OS_FAMILY | A string representing the family of the operating system. | Yes | No |
OS_TYPE | A string representing the name of the operating system. | Yes | Yes |
OS_VER | A string representing the version of the operating system. | Yes | Yes |
TIMEZONE | A string representing the timezone international code for the system | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_SIZE | The sum of the size of the datastores used by this system in bytes. | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_REAL_MEM | The total amount of memory installed on the system. | Yes | Yes |
VIRTUALCENTER_NAME | The name of the Virtual Center. | Yes | Yes |
1 Indicates metrics that are set at level 4. These metrics are imported only when the collection level of the ETL is set to ‘Extended’. For information about changing the collection level, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service. Alternatively, you can create a custom metric profile to change the level of these metrics. For more information, see Adding and managing metric profiles.
Virtual Host performance metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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BYCPU_CPU_UTIL | Percentage of time the CPU was not idle during the interval for each CPU of the system. The subobject specifies the CPU id. | cpu.usage.average | Yes | |
BYDSTORE_AVG_READ_NUM | The averaged number of read operations by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.numberReadAveraged | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_AVG_WRITE_NUM | The averaged number of write operations by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.numberWriteAveraged | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_FREE | The free space of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_IO_RATE | The IO rate performed on a datastore in OP/s. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.datastoreIops | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_PROVISIONED | The provisioned space of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | Yes | |
BYDSTORE_READ_LATENCY | The read latency by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.totalReadLatency | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_READ_RATE | The read transfer rate performed on a datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.read | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_USED | The space used by Datastore. | NA | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_UTIL | Storage space utilization percentage. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | ||
BYDSTORE_WRITE_LATENCY | Write latency by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.totalWriteLatency | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_WRITE_RATE | The write transfer rate performed on a datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.write | Yes | No |
BYIF_BIT_RATE | The number of Bit per second sent and received during the interval through the network interface specified in the subobject. | NA | Yes | No |
BYIF_IN_BYTE_RATE | The number of Bytes per second received during the interval through the network interface specified in the subobject. | NA | Yes | Yes |
BYIF_IN_ERROR_RATE | Rate of input errors (errors/sec), by an interface. | NA | Yes | No |
BYIF_IN_PKT_DROP_PCT | Percentage of Inbound dropped packets by an interface. | net.droppedRx.summation | Yes | |
BYIF_IN_PKT_RATE | The number of successful physical packets per second received during the interval through the network interface specified in the subobject. | NA | Yes | Yes |
BYIF_OUT_BYTE_RATE | The number of Bytes per second sent during the interval through the network interface specified in the subobject. | NA | Yes | Yes |
BYIF_OUT_ERROR_RATE | Rate of output errors (errors/sec), by an interface | NA | Yes | No |
BYIF_OUT_PKT_DROP_PCT | Percentage of Outbound dropped packets by an interface. | net.droppedTx.summation | Yes | |
BYIF_OUT_PKT_RATE | The number of successful physical packets per second sent during the interval through the network interface specified in the subobject. | NA | Yes | Yes |
CPU_COSTOP | Amount of time a SMP virtual machine was ready to run, but incurred delays due to co-vCPU scheduling contention. | cpu.costop | Yes | No |
CPU_DEMAND | The amount of CPU resources a VM would use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit. | cpu.demand.average | Yes | |
CPU_READY 1 | The percentage of time the CPU was in Ready state during the interval in a Guest Machine. | cpu.ready | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL 1 | The percentage of time the CPU was not idle during the interval. | cpu.usage | Yes | Yes |
CPU_UTIL_IDLE | The percentage of time the CPU was in idle mode during the interval. | cpu.idle | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL_OPTIMIZED | CPU utilization optimized as a percentage during the interval for a host system. CPU util % and CPU utilization optimized may be different due to power management technologies or hyper-threadin. | cpu.utilization.average | Yes | |
CPU_UTIL_OVERHEAD | The percentage of time the CPU was not idle during the interval performed for the virtualization layer | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL_SYSTEM | The percentage of time the CPU was in system mode during the interval. | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL_USER | The percentage of time the CPU was in user mode during the interval. | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_UTILMHZ1 | Average number of MHz the CPU was not idle during the interval | cpu.usagemhz | Yes | Yes |
CPU_UTILMHZ_HM | CPU MHz consumption as the highmark counter | cpu.usagemhz | Yes | No |
CPU_WAIT | The CPU wait | cpu.wait | Yes | Yes |
DISK_BUS_RESETS_RATE | Number of SCSI-bus reset commands issued during the collection interval. | disk.busResets | Yes | No |
DISK_COMMANDS_ABORTED_RATE | Number of SCSI commands aborted during the collection interval. | disk.commandsAborted | Yes | No |
DISK_MAX_LATENCY | The disk max latency | disk.maxTotalLatency.latest | Yes | |
DISK_PAGING_IO_RATE2 | Disk Average I/O Rate aggregated by host (paging). | Yes | No | |
DISK_PHYS_IO_RATE | The number of physical IOs per second during the interval. | disk.iorate | Yes | No |
DISK_READ_RATE | The average Bytes per second read from disk device during the interval | disk.read | Yes | Yes |
DISK_TOTAL_LATENCY | The disk total latency. | disk.totalLatency | Yes | No |
DISK_TOTAL_LATENCY_PEAK | The disk total latency peak. | disk.maxTotalLatency | Yes | Yes |
DISK_TRANSFER_RATE | The average number of bytes per second at which data was transferred | disk.transfer | Yes | Yes |
DISK_WRITE_RATE | The average Bytes per second write to disk device during the interval | disk.write | Yes | Yes |
GM_NUM | Number of Guest Machines | NA | Yes | Yes |
GM_ON_NUM | Number of Powered On Guest Machines | NA | Yes | Yes |
MEM_ACTIVE 1 | Sum of the physical memory sizes of the data and stack regions for processes that are currently on the run queue or processes that have executed recently | mem.active | Yes | Yes |
MEM_BALLOONING 1 | Amount of memory reclaimed by ballooning | mem.vmmemctl | Yes | Yes |
MEM_CONSUMED1 | Amount of memory effectively consumed by the Guest Machine. This is less than Memory Granted as some memory is saved with sharing. The The subobject specifies the Guest Machine id. | mem.consumed | Yes | Yes |
MEM_FREE1 | The total free memory, in bytes. | NA | Yes | No |
MEM_GRANTED 1 | The sum of memory granted to all Guest Machines. If some memory blocks are shared among GMs, its value can be more than host physical memory. | mem.granted | Yes | Yes |
MEM_HEAP1 | Amount of memory allocated for heap. | mem.heap | Yes | No |
MEM_HEAP_FREE1 | Amount of free space in the memory heap. | mem.heapfree | Yes | No |
MEM_OVERHEAD 1 | Memory consumed for virtualization | mem.overhead | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SHARED 1 | Amount of memory shared via transparent page sharing | mem.shared | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SHARED_COMMON1 | Amount of memory that is shared in common between virtual machines. | mem.sharedcommon | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SWAP_IN_BYTE_RATE 1 | The number of bytes per second reactivated (HP-UX) or swapped in (all other OS). | mem.swapinRate | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SWAP_OUT_BYTE_RATE 1 | The number of bytes per second swapped out during the interval. | mem.swapoutRate | Yes | Yes |
MEM_UNRESERVED 2 | Amount of memory that unreserved by virtual machine memory, overhead, or system resource reservations. | mem.unreserved | Yes | Yes |
MEM_UTIL 2 | The percentage of physical memory in use during the interval. | mem.usage | Yes | Yes |
MEM_VMKERNEL 2 | The amount of memory used by VM kernel. | mem.sysusage | Yes | No |
MEM_ZERO | The amount of memory that contains zeroes only. | mem.zero | Yes | No |
NET_BIT_RATE | The average Bit/s sent and received. | net.usage | Yes | Yes |
NET_IN_BYTE_RATE | The average bytes/s received. | net.received | Yes | Yes |
NET_OUT_BYTE_RATE | The average Bytes/s sent. | net.transmitted | Yes | Yes |
NET_IN_PKT_ERROR_RATE | The total number of input physical packets dropped during the interval. | net.droppedRx | Yes | No |
NET_IN_PKT_RATE | The total number of physical packets received during the interval. | net.packetsRx | Yes | No |
NET_OUT_PKT_ERROR_RATE | The total number of output physical packets dropped during the interval. | net.droppedTx | Yes | No |
NET_OUT_PKT_RATE | The number of successful packets per second sent through the network interfaces during the interval. | net.packetsTx | Yes | No |
TOTAL_DSTORE_FREE | The sum of the free space of all the datastores used by this system in bytes. | NA | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_PROVISIONED | The sum of the provisioned space of all the datastores used by this system in bytes. | NA | ||
TOTAL_DSTORE_USED | Total physical datastore space used by this machine and all its snapshots on the datastores. | NA | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_UTIL | Total physical storage space utilization % on this cloud system. | NA | Yes | |
SWAP_SPACE_USED | The amount in bytes of swap space used. | mem.swapused | Yes | No |
VCPU_NUM | The number of configured Virtual CPUs on all Virtual Machines. | NA | Yes | Yes |
VCPU_ON_NUM | The number of powered on Virtual CPUs on all Virtual Machines. | NA | Yes | Yes |
1 Indicates metrics for which custom details can be imported using the VMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL.
2 Indicates metrics that are set at level 4. These metrics are imported only when the collection level of the ETL is set to ‘Extended’. For information about changing the collection level, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service . Alternatively, you can create a custom metric profile to change the level of these metrics. For more information, see Adding and managing metric profiles.
Virtual Machine configuration metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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ANNOTATION | The annotation of a Guest Machine | Yes | |
BYFS_SIZE | Filesystem size, in Bytes. | Yes | Yes |
BYLDISK_SIZE | Logical disk size (bytes). | Yes | Yes |
BYSNAPSHOT_SIZE | The total size of the snapshot in bytes. The subobject specifies the snapshot id. | Yes | No |
BYSNAPSHOT_CREATION_DATE | Creation date of a snapshot. The subobject specifies the snapshot id. | Yes | No |
CLUSTER_NAME | The name of the cluster this server belongs to | Yes | Yes |
CPU_COMPUTED_LIMIT_OPT | A computed limit in CPU capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario without resource contention. The computation is based on limits and reservation of all the Guest Machines on the same host. | Yes | |
CPU_COMPUTED_LIMIT_PESS | A computed limit in CPU capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario of maximum resource contention. The computation is based on limits, reservation and shares of all the Guest Machines and Resource Pools on the same host. | Yes | |
CPU_FAMILY | The architecture type of CPU. | No | No |
CPU_LIMIT_MHZ | The maximum frequency of physical CPU that can be allocated. A value of -1 means the limit is not set. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_MHZ | The frequency of each physical CPU core | Yes | Yes |
CPU_NUM | The number of CPU cores physically on the system. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_RESERVED_MHZ | The frequency of physical CPU reserved. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_SHARES | The shares value of physical CPU allocated. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_SHARES_PERC | The percentage shares value of physical CPU allocated to a Guest Machine over the shares that are allocated to the other Guest Machines of the same host. The subobject specifies the Guest Machine id. | Yes | |
DSTORE_IDS | The list of id of the Datastores where this Guest Machines is stored to stored, separated by ':' | No | Yes |
DSTORE_NAMES | The list of names of the Datastores where this Guest Machines is stored to stored, separated by ':'. | No | Yes |
DISK_NUM1 | The number of disks | Yes | No |
HOST_ID | The hardware identifier of the host. For VMWare hosts its the UUID. | Yes | Yes |
HOST_NAME | The network host name identifier. | Yes | Yes |
LDISK_NUM | The number of logical disks in the system. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_COMPUTED_LIMIT_OPT | |||
MEM_COMPUTED_LIMIT_PESS | A computed limit in memory capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario of maximum resource contention. The computation is based on limits, reservation and shares of all the Guest Machines and Resource Pools on the same host. | Yes | |
MEM_LIMIT | The maximum amount of physical memory that can be allocated. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SHARES | The shares value of physical memory allocated. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SHARES_PERC | The percentage shares value of physical memory allocated to a Guest Machine over the shares allocated to the other Guest Machines of the same host. | Yes | |
NETIF_NUM | The number of network interfaces on the system. | Yes | Yes |
NET_IP_ADDRESS1 | The main IP address. | Yes | No |
OS_FAMILY | A string representing the family of the operating system. | Yes | No |
OS_TYPE | A string representing the name of the operating system. | Yes | Yes |
OLDEST_SNAPSHOT_AGE | The oldest snapshot age. | Yes | No |
PARTITION_NAME | The virtual machine identifier | Yes | |
RESERVED_MEM | The amount of memory reserved for a Guest Machine. | Yes | Yes |
SNAPSHOT_NUMBER | The number of snapshots of this Guest Machine. | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_FS_SIZE | The total size of all the filesystems, in Bytes. | No | Yes |
TOTAL_LDISK_SIZE | The total disk size (bytes) for all logical disk in the system. | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_REAL_MEM | The total amount of memory installed on the system. | Yes | Yes |
VM_DISKS_THIN_PROVISIONED | Identify if the disks associated with a VM are thin provisioned. | Yes | No |
VM_LAST_STATUS | Guest Machine last known power status. Set to 1 if the guest machine is running, 0 otherwise. | Yes | Yes |
VM_TEMPLATE | Identify if virtual machine is a template. | Yes | Yes |
VM_TOOLS_STATUS | Current running status of VMware Tools in the guest operating system | Yes | |
VM_TOOLS_VERSION | Current version status of VMware Tools in the guest operating system | Yes |
1 Indicates metrics that are set at level 4. These metrics are imported only when the collection level of the ETL is set to ‘Extended’. For information about changing the collection level, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service. Alternatively, you can create a custom metric profile to change the level of these metrics. For more information, see Adding and managing metric profiles.
Virtual Machine performance metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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BYDSTORE_AVG_READ_NUM | Averaged number of read operations by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.numberReadAveraged | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_AVG_WRITE_NUM | Averaged number of write operations by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.numberWriteAveraged | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_IO_RATE | The IO rate performed on a datastore in OP/s. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.datastoreIops | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_PROVISIONED | The provisioned space of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_READ_LATENCY | Read latency by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.totalReadLatency | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_READ_RATE | The read transfer rate performed on a datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.read | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_USED | The used space of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | Yes | Yes |
BYDSTORE_WRITE_LATENCY | Write latency by Datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.totalWriteLatency | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_WRITE_RATE | The write transfer rate performed on a datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | datastore.write | Yes | No |
BYFS_FREE | Free disk space of a specific filesystem, in Bytes. | GuestDiskInfo.freespace | Yes | Yes |
BYFS_USED | Used disk space of a specific filesystem, in Bytes. | GuestDiskInfo.capacity - GuestDiskInfo.freespace | Yes | Yes |
BYFS_USED_SPACE_PCT | The percentage of used disk space of a specific filesystem. | GuestDiskInfo.freespace/ | No | Yes |
BYSNAPSHOT_SIZE | The total size of the snapshot in bytes. The subobject specifies the snapshot id. | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_DEMAND | The amount of CPU resources a VM would use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit. | cpu.demand.average | Yes | |
CPU_READY1 | Percentage of time the CPU was in Ready state during the interval in a Guest Machine. | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL1 | Percentage of time the CPU was not idle during the interval. | cpu.usage | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL_IDLE | The percentage of time the CPU was in idle mode during the interval. | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_UTILMHZ1 | Average number of MHz the CPU was not idle during the interval. | cpu.usagemhz | Yes | No |
CPU_UTILMHZ_HM | CPU MHz consumption as a highmark counter | cpu.usagemhz | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL_SYSTEM3 | The CPU utilization percentage in system mode. | cpu.system | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL_USER3 | The CPU utilization percentage in user mode. | cpu.usage - cpu.system | Yes | No |
CPU_COSTOP | The percentage of time the CPU was in Co-stop state during the interval. | cpu.costop | Yes | No |
CPU_WAIT | The CPU wait | cpu.wait | Yes | Yes |
DISK_BUS_RESETS_RATE | Number of SCSI-bus reset commands issued during the collection interval. | disk.busResets | Yes | No |
DISK_COMMANDS_ABORTED_RATE | Number of SCSI commands aborted during the collection interval. | disk.commandsAborted | Yes | No |
DISK_MAX_LATENCY | The disk max latency | disk.maxTotalLatency.latest | Yes | |
DISK_PAGING_IO_RATE 3 | Disk Average I/O Rate aggregated by host (paging). | NA | Yes | No |
DISK_PHYS_IO_RATE | The average number of physical IO requests per second for this disk. The subobject specifies the Disk id. | disk.iorate | Yes | No |
DISK_READ_RATE | The average Bytes per second read from disk device during the interval. | disk.read.average | Yes | |
DISK_TOTAL_LATENCY | The disk total latency. | disk.totalLatency.average | Yes | |
DISK_TRANSFER_RATE | The average number of bytes per second at which data was transferred. | disk.usage.average | Yes | |
DISK_WRITE_RATE | The average Bytes per second write to disk device during the interval. | disk.write.average | Yes | |
DRS_NUM | Number of Guest Machine migration events | vmop.numVMotion | Yes | No |
MEM_ACTIVE1 | Sum of the physical memory sizes of the data and stack regions for processes that are currently on the run queue or processes that have executed recently | mem.active | Yes | No |
MEM_BALLOONING1 | Amount of memory reclaimed by ballooning | mem.vmmemctl | Yes | No |
MEM_CONSUMED1 | Amount of memory effectively consumed by the Guest Machine. This is less than Memory Granted as some memory is saved with sharing. The The subobject specifies the Guest Machine id. | mem.consumed | Yes | No |
MEM_GRANTED1 | The sum of memory granted to all Guest Machines. If some memory blocks are shared among GMs, its value can be more than host physical memory. | mem.granted | Yes | No |
MEM_HEAP1 | Amount of memory allocated for heap. | mem.heap | Yes | No |
MEM_HEAP_FREE1 | Amount of free space in the memory heap. | mem.heapfree | Yes | No |
MEM_OVERHEAD1 | Memory consumed for virtualization | mem.overhead | Yes | No |
MEM_SHARED 1 | Amount of memory shared via transparent page sharing | mem.shared | Yes | No |
MEM_SHARED_COMMON1 | Amount of memory that is shared in common between virtual machines. | mem.sharedcommon | Yes | No |
MEM_SWAP_IN_BYTE_RATE1 | The number of bytes per second reactivated (HP-UX) or swapped in (all other OS). | mem.swapinRate | Yes | No |
MEM_SWAP_OUT_BYTE_RATE1 | The number of bytes per second swapped out during the interval. | mem.swapoutRate | Yes | No |
MEM_UNRESERVED | Amount of memory that unreserved by virtual machine memory, overhead, or system resource reservations. | mem.unreserved | Yes | No |
MEM_UTIL1 | The percentage of physical memory in use during the interval. | mem.usage | Yes | No |
MEM_ZERO 3 | Memory that contains zero (0) only. | mem.zero | Yes | No |
NET_BIT_RATE | Average Bit/s sent and received | net.usage | Yes | No |
NET_IN_BYTE_RATE | Average Bytes/s received | net.received | Yes | No |
NET_IN_PKT_ERROR_RATE | The total number of input physical packets dropped during the interval. | net.droppedRx | Yes | No |
NET_IN_PKT_RATE | The total number of physical packets received during the interval. | net.packetsRx | Yes | No |
NET_OUT_BYTE_RATE | Average Bytes/s sent | net.transmitted | Yes | No |
NET_OUT_PKT_ERROR_RATE | The total number of output physical packets dropped during the interval. | net.droppedTx | Yes | No |
NET_OUT_PKT_RATE | The number of successful packets per second sent through the network interfaces during the interval. | net.packetsTx | Yes | No |
SWAP_SPACE_USED 3 | The amount of swap space in use. | mem.swapused | Yes | No |
SNAPSHOT_SIZE | The total size of the snapshot in bytes (used at cluster/datastore level). | NA | Yes | |
TOTAL_DSTORE_UTIL3 | The total dstore space utilization in percentage. | NA | Yes | No |
TOTAL_DSTORE_USED | Total physical datastore space used by this machine and all its snapshots on the datastores. | NA | Yes | |
TOTAL_FS_USED 2 | The used disk space on all filesystems, in Bytes. | NA | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_FS_UTIL3 | The total file system utilization in percentage. | NA | Yes | No |
TOTAL_STORAGE_PROVISIONED | Total physical storage space provisioned for this Guest Machine and all its snapshots. | NA | Yes | No |
TOTAL_STORAGE_USED | Total physical storage space used by this Guest Machine and all its snapshots. | NA | Yes | No |
UPTIME | Total Uptime | sys.uptime | Yes | Yes |
1 Indicates metrics for which custom details can be imported using the VMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL.
2 Indicates metrics for which details will be imported every 15 minutes irrespective of the resolution used in the VMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL.
3 Indicates metrics that are set at level 4. These metrics are imported only when the collection level of the ETL is set to ‘Extended’. For information about changing the collection level, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service. Alternatively, you can create a custom metric profile to change the level of these metrics. For more information, see Adding and managing metric profiles.
Virtual Cluster configuration metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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BYDSTORE_ID | The id of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_NAME | The name of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_SIZE | The total size of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_TYPE | The type of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_URL | The URL of the datastore. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | Yes | No |
CLUSTER_FAILOVER_THRESHOLD | The maximum number of hosts that can fail at the same time in an HA cluster. This value is used to compute thresholds for Reservations and Indicators. Note: To import this metric, while configuring the VMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL, select Yes in the Advanced property - Import cluster failover threshold metric. | Yes | Yes |
CLUSTER_FAILOVER_TOLERANCE | The number of failures that can be tolerated in an HA cluster or the number of failover hosts that are configured in the HA cluster. | Yes | Yes |
CLUSTER_NAME | The name of the cluster this server belongs to | No | Yes |
CPU_MHZ | The frequency of each physical CPU core | Yes | Yes |
CPU_NUM | The number of CPU cores physically on the system. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_PACKAGE_NUM | The number of CPU packages physically installed on the system sockets. | Yes | No |
CPU_TOTAL_MHZ | The total frequency of CPU (the sum of each physical CPU core) | Yes | Yes |
DPM_STATUS | Distributed Power Management (DPM) status | Yes | Yes |
DRS_AUTO_LEVEL | DRS automation migration level. | Yes | No |
DRS_STATUS | Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) status | Yes | Yes |
EVC_MODE | The EVC mode of the cluster. | ||
HA_STATUS | The HA status. | Yes | No |
HOST_NUM | Number of hosts. | Yes | Yes |
NET_BANDWIDTH | Network bandwidth | Yes | Yes |
TIMEZONE | A string representing thetimezoneinternational code for the system | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_CLUSTER_NUM | The total number of associated datastore clusters. | ||
TOTAL_DSTORE_SIZE1 | The sum of the size of the datastores used by this system in bytes. | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_NUM | The total number of associated datastores. | Yes | No |
TOTAL_REAL_MEM | The total amount of memory installed on the system. | Yes | Yes |
VIRTUALCENTER_NAME | The name of the VirtualCenter. | Yes | Yes |
VIRTUALCENTER_VERSION | The version of the VirtualCenter. | Yes | Yes |
VRAM_ENTITLEMENT | Licensed vRAM | Yes | No |
1 Metrics are available only for clusters that have shared datastores in them.
Virtual Cluster performance metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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BYDSTORE_FREE | The free space of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | Yes | No |
BYDSTORE_USED | The used space of the datastore in bytes. The subobject specifies the Datastore id. | NA | Yes | No |
CLUSTER_FAILURES | The number of failures that occurred in an HA cluster. | clusterServices.failover.latest | Yes | No |
CPU_EFFECTIVE_MHZ 1 | Effective CPU resources (in MHz) available to run virtual machines. This is the aggregated effective resource level from all running hosts inside a cluster. | NA | Yes | No |
CPU_UTIL 1 | The sum of actively used CPU of all virtual machines in the cluster, as a percentage of the total available CPU. | cpu.usage | Yes | No |
CPU_UTILMHZ 1 | Average number of MHz the CPU was not idle during the interval. | cpu.usagemhz | Yes | No |
CPU_UNRESERVED | Amount of unreserved CPU that is available after taking the reservation for virtual machines, vSphere services, VMkernel, and overhead into account. | NA | Yes | |
DISK_READ_RATE | The average Bytes per second read from disk device during the interval | disk.read | Yes | No |
DISK_TRANSFER_RATE | The average number of bytes per second at which data was transferred | disk.transfer | Yes | No |
DISK_WRITE_RATE | The average Bytes per second write to disk device during the interval | disk.write | Yes | No |
DRS_NUM1 | Number of Guest Machine migration events | vmop.numVMotion | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_FREE | The free space of the datastore in bytes. | NA | Yes | No |
GM_NUM | Number of Guest Machines | NA | Yes | No |
GM_ON_NUM | Number of Powered On Guest Machines | NA | Yes | No |
MEM_ACTIVE1 | Sum of the physical memory sizes of the data and stack regions for processes that are currently on the run queue or processes that have executed recently | mem.active | Yes | No |
MEM_BALLOONING1 | Amount of memory reclaimed by ballooning | mem.vmmemctl | Yes | No |
MEM_CONSUMED 1 | Amount of memory effectively consumed by the Guest Machine. This is less than Memory Granted as some memory is saved with sharing. The subobject specifies the Guest Machine id. | mem.consumed | Yes | No |
MEM_EFFECTIVE1 | The amount of effective memory that can be used on a cluster. | NA | Yes | No |
MEM_GRANTED 1 | The sum of memory granted to all Guest Machines. If some memory blocks are shared among GMs, its value can be more than host physical memory. | mem.granted | Yes | No |
MEM_OVERHEAD1 | Memory consumed for virtualization | mem.overhead | Yes | No |
MEM_SHARED1 | Amount of memory shared via transparent page sharing | mem.shared | Yes | No |
MEM_SWAP_IN_BYTE_RATE | The number of bytes per second reactivated (HP-UX) or swapped in (all other OS). | NA | Yes | |
MEM_SWAP_OUT_BYTE_RATE | The number of bytes per second swapped out during the interval. | NA | Yes | |
MEM_SWAP_RATE | The number of bytes per second reactivated/deactivated (HP-UX), swapped in/out (all other OS). This metric is the sum of Memory Swap In Byte Rate and Memory Swap Out Byte Rate. | NA | Yes | |
MEM_UNRESERVED | Amount of unreserved Memory that is available after taking the reservation for virtual machined, vSphere services, VMKernel and overhead into account. | NA | ||
MEM_UTIL1 | The sum of memory consumed of all virtual machines in the cluster, as a percentage of the total available Memory. | mem.usage | Yes | No |
MEM_ZERO | Amount of memory that is contains zeroes only | NA | Yes | No |
NET_BIT_RATE | Average Bit/s sent and received | net.usage | Yes | No |
SNAPSHOT_SIZE | The total size of the snapshot in bytes (used at cluster/datastore level). | NA | Yes | No |
SVMOTION_NUM1 | Number of Storage VMotion migration events | vmop.numSVMotion | Yes | No |
SWAP_SPACE_USED | The amount in bytes of swap space used. | NA | Yes | No |
TOTAL_DSTORE_FREE 2 | The sum of the free space of all the datastores used by this system in bytes. | NA | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_PROVISIONED 2 | The total provisioned space of the Datastores. | NA | Yes | No |
TOTAL_DSTORE_USED 2 | Total physical datastore space used by this machine and all its snapshots on the datastores. | NA | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_UTIL 2 | The total datastore space utilization in percentage. | NA | Yes | Yes |
VCPU_NUM | Number of configured Virtual CPUs on all Virtual Machines | NA | Yes | No |
VCPU_ON_NUM | Number of powered on Virtual CPUs on all Virtual Machines | NA | Yes | No |
VM_CLONE_NUM1 | Number of Guest Machine clone events | vmop.numClone | Yes | Yes |
VM_POWEROFF_NUM1 | Number of Guest Machine poweroff events | vmop.numPoweroff | Yes | Yes |
VM_POWERON_NUM1 | Number of Guest Machine poweron events | vmop.numPoweron | Yes | Yes |
1 Indicates metrics for which custom details can be imported using the VMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL.
2 Metrics are available only for clusters that have shared datastores in them.Resource Pool configuration metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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CPU_COMPUTED_LIMIT_OPT | A computed limit in CPU capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario without resource contention. The computation is based on limits and reservation of all the Guest Machines on the same host. | Yes | No |
CPU_COMPUTED_LIMIT_PESS | A computed limit in CPU capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario of maximum resource contention. The computation is based on limits, reservation and shares of all the Guest Machines and Resource Pools on the same host. | Yes | No |
CPU_EXPANDABLE | Tells if the cpu limit can be expandable. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_LIMIT_MHZ | The maximum frequency of physical CPU that can be allocated. A value of -1 means the limit is not set. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_RESERVED_MHZ | The frequency of physical CPU reserved. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_SHARES | The shares value of physical CPU allocated. | Yes | Yes |
CPU_SHARES_PERC | The percentage shares value of physical CPU allocated to a Guest Machine over the shares allocated to the other Guest Machines of the same host. The subobject specifies the Guest Machine id. | Yes | No |
MEM_COMPUTED_LIMIT_OPT | A computed limit in memory capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario without resource contention. The computation is based on limits and reservation of all the Guest Machines on the same host. | Yes | No |
MEM_COMPUTED_LIMIT_PESS | A computed limit in memory capacity that can be allocated to the Guest Machine, in a scenario of maximum resource contention. The computation is based on limits, reservation and shares of all the Guest Machines and Resource Pools on the same host. | Yes | No |
MEM_EXPANDABLE | Tell if the memory limit can be expandable. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_LIMIT | The maximum amount of physical memory that can be allocated. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_RESERVED | The amount of memory reserved. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SHARES | The shares value of physical memory allocated. | Yes | Yes |
MEM_SHARES_PERC | The percentage shares value of physical memory allocated to a Guest Machine over the shares allocated to the other Guest Machines of the same host. | Yes | No |
Resource Pool performance metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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CPU_UTILMHZ 1 | Average number of MHz the CPU was not idle during the interval | cpu.usagemhz | Yes | No |
GM_NUM | Number of Guest Machines | NA | Yes | No |
GM_ON_NUM | Number of Powered On Guest Machines | NA | Yes | No |
MEM_ACTIVE | Sum of the physical memory sizes of the data and stack regions for processes that are currently on the run queue, or for processes that have recently executed. | TBD | Yes | |
MEM_BALLOONING1 | Amount of memory reclaimed by ballooning | mem.vmmemctl | Yes | No |
MEM_CONSUMED1 | Amount of memory effectively consumed by the Guest Machine. This is less than Memory Granted as some memory is saved with sharing. The The subobject specifies the Guest Machine id. | mem.consumed | Yes | No |
MEM_GRANTED1 | The sum of memory granted to all Guest Machines. If some memory blocks are shared among GMs, its value can be more than host physical memory. | mem.granted | Yes | No |
MEM_OVERHEAD1 | Memory consumed for virtualization | mem.overhead | Yes | No |
MEM_SHARED1 | Amount of memory shared via transparent page sharing | mem.shared | Yes | No |
VCPU_NUM | Number of configured Virtual CPUs on all Virtual Machines | NA | Yes | No |
VCPU_ON_NUM | Number of powered on Virtual CPUs on all Virtual Machines | NA | Yes | No |
1 Indicates metrics for which custom details can be imported using the VMware - vCenter Extractor Service ETL.
Datastore configuration metrics
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Only the Network File System (NFS) and Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore types are supported.
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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DSTORE_BLOCK_SIZE1 | The block size of the datastore in bytes. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_DEVICE2 | For VMFS datastores backed by shared block devices (LUNs), this is the "naa" ID of the first backing device. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_DISPLAY_NAME | Datastore display name, used to identify the datastore. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_FS_TYPE2 | The file system type (NFS or VMFS) of the datastore. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_HW_MODEL2 | For VMFS datastores, the hardware model of the backing device. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_ID | The id of the datastore. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_MAX_FILE_SIZE1 | The maximum size of a file that can reside on this datastore. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_NAMES | The list of names of the Datastores where this Guest Machines is stored, separated by ':'. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_SHARED | Indicates if datastore is shared among hosts. | Yes | Yes (Not available for vSAN) |
DSTORE_SIZE | The total size of the datastore in bytes. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_TYPE | The Type of the datastore. | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_URL | The URL of the datastore. | Yes | Yes |
1 Indicates metrics that are set at level 4. These metrics are imported only when the collection level of the ETL is set to ‘Extended’. For information about changing the collection level, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service. Alternatively, you can create a custom metric profile to change the level of these metrics. For more information, see Adding and managing metric profiles.
2 The metric is not available for a vSAN datastore.
Datastore performance metrics
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Only the Network File System (NFS) and Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore types are supported.
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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DSTORE_AVG_READ_NUM2 | Datastore averaged number of read operations. | datastore.numberReadAveraged | Yes | No |
DSTORE_AVG_WRITE_NUM2 | Datastore averaged number of write operations. | datastore.numberWriteAveraged | Yes | No |
DSTORE_FREE | The free space of the datastore in bytes. | NA | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_UTIL | The datastore space utlization in percentage. | usage/size (computed) | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_IO_RATE2 | The IO rate performed on a datastore in OP/s. | datastore.datastoreIops | Yes | No |
DSTORE_PROVISIONED | The provisioned space on the datastore in bytes. | summary.capacity-summary.freeSpace+summary.uncommitted | Yes | No |
DSTORE_READ_LATENCY2 | Average amount of time for a read operation from the Datastore | datastore.totalReadLatency | Yes | No |
DSTORE_READ_RATE2 | Rate of reading data from the datastore during the interval | datastore.read | Yes | No |
DSTORE_UNCOMMITTED_SIZE1 | Total additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by all virtual machines on this datastore. | NA | Yes | No |
DSTORE_USED_SIZE | The used space of the datastore in bytes. | NA | Yes | Yes |
DSTORE_WRITE_LATENCY2 | Average amount of time for a write operation from the Datastore. | datastore.totalWriteLatency | Yes | No |
DSTORE_WRITE_RATE2 | Rate of writing data to the datastore during the interval. | datastore.write | Yes | No |
SNAPSHOT_SIZE | The total size of the snapshot in bytes (used at cluster/datastore level). | NA | Yes | No |
1 Indicates metrics that are set at level 4. These metrics are imported only when the collection level of the ETL is set to ‘Extended’. For information about changing the collection level, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service . Alternatively, you can create a custom metric profile to change the level of these metrics. For more information, see Adding and managing metric profiles.
2 The metric is not available for a vSAN datastore.
Data center configuration metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description |
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VIRTUALCENTER_NAME | The name of the VirtualCenter. |
VIRTUALCENTER_VERSION | The version of the VirtualCenter. |
Data center performance metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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DRS_NUM | The number of Guest Machine migration events. | vmop.numVMotion | Yes | No |
VM_CLONE_NUM | The number of Guest Machine clone events. | vmop.numClone | Yes | No |
VM_POWEROFF_NUM | The number of Guest Machine poweroff events. | vmop.numPoweroff | Yes | No |
VM_POWERON_NUM | The number of Guest Machine poweron events. | vmop.numPoweron | Yes | No |
Datastore cluster configuration metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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DSTORE_CLUSTER_AUTOMATION_LEVEL | Datastore cluster storage DRS automation level. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_CLUSTER_DRS_IOLATENCY_THRESHOLD | Datastore cluster storage DRS I/O latency threshold. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_CLUSTER_DRS_UTIL_SPACE_THRESHOLD | Datastore cluster storage DRS utilized space threshold. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_CLUSTER_DSTORE_NUM | Number of Datastores connected to Datastore Cluster. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_CLUSTER_IOLOADBALANCE_STATUS | Datastore cluster storage I/O load balance status. | Yes | No |
DSTORE_CLUSTER_STORAGE_DRS_STATUS | Datastore cluster storage DRS status. | Yes | No |
TOTAL_DSTORE_SIZE | The sum of the size of the datastores used by this system in bytes. | Yes | Yes |
Datastore cluster performance metrics
TrueSight Capacity Optimization metric | Description | VMware metric | Available in Extractor Service | Available in History Extractor |
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TOTAL_DSTORE_FREE | The sum of the free space of all the datastores used by this system in bytes. | storagepodsummary.freeSpace | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_USED | Total physical datastore space used by this machine and all its snapshots on the datastores. | storagepodsummary.capacity-storagepodsummary.freeSpace | Yes | Yes |
TOTAL_DSTORE_UTIL | Total physical storage space utilization % on this cloud system. | (storagepodsummary.capacity-storagepodsummary.freeSpace)/storagepodsummary.capacity-storagepodsummary.capacity | Yes | Yes |
Lookup information
Entity | Entity type | Lookup fields | |
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Strong | Weak | ||
Datacenter | dc | PARENT_VCUUID&&VMW_VMREF or PARENT_VCNAME&&VMW_VMREF | Not applicable |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | vhc:vmw | PARENT_VCUUID&&VMW_VMREF or PARENT_VCNAME&&VMW_VMREF |
|
Datastore | ds |
| DATASTORE_NAME (If datastore name does not starts with "local") |
Virtual Host - VMware | vh:vmw |
| HOSTNAME&&NAME |
Virtual Machine - VMware | gm:vmw | PARENT_VCUUID&&VMW_VMREF or PARENT_VCNAME&&VMW_VMREF |
|
Virtual Application - VMware vApp | gapp:vapp |
|
|
Resource Pool | rp | PARENT_VCUUID&&VMW_VMREF or PARENT_VCNAME&&VMW_VMREF |
|
Datastore Cluster - VMware | dsc:vmw | PARENT_VCUUID&&VMW_VMREF or PARENT_VCNAME&&VMW_VMREF | PARENT_VCNAME&&DATASTORE_CLUSTER_NAME |
Entity relationship
Primary (Parent) entity | Secondary (Child) entity | Relationship type | Description |
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Datastore Cluster - VMware | Datastore | DSC_CONTAINS_DS | Datastore Cluster contains Datastore |
Datacenter | Datastore Cluster - VMware | DC_CONTAINS_DSC | Datacenter contains Datastore Cluster |
Datacenter | Virtual Cluster - VMware | DC_CONTAINS_VHC | Datacenter contains Virtual Cluster |
Datacenter | Virtual Host - VMware | DC_CONTAINS_VH | Datacenter contains Virtual Host |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | Virtual Host - VMware | VHC_CONTAINS_VH | Virtual Cluster contains Virtual Host |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | Virtual Application - VMware vApp | VHC_CONTAINS_VAPP | Virtual Cluster contains VMware vApp |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | Resource Pool | VHC_CONTAINS_RP | Virtual Cluster contains Resource Pool |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | Virtual Machine - VMware | VHC_CONTAINS_GM | Virtual Cluster contains VM |
Virtual Host - VMware | Virtual Application - VMware vApp | VH_CONTAINS_VAPP | Virtual Host contains VMware vApp |
Virtual Host - VMware | Resource Pool | VH_CONTAINS_RP | Virtual Host contains Resource Pool |
Virtual Host - VMware | Virtual Machine - VMware | VH_CONTAINS_GM | Virtual Host contains VM |
Datastore | Virtual Machine - VMware | DS_CONTAINS_GM | Datastore contains VM |
Resource Pool | Virtual Application - VMware vApp | RP_CONTAINS_VAPP | Resource Pool contains VMware vApp |
Resource Pool | Resource Pool | RP_CONTAINS_RP | Resource Pool contains Resource Pool |
Resource Pool | Virtual Machine - VMware | RP_CONTAINS_GM | Resource Pool contains VM |
Virtual Host - VMware | Datastore Cluster - VMware | VH_USES_DSC | Virtual Host uses Datastore Cluster |
Virtual Host - VMware | Datastore | VH_USES_DS | Virtual Host uses Datastore |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | Datastore Cluster - VMware | VHC_USES_DSC | Virtual Cluster uses Datastore Cluster |
Virtual Cluster - VMware | Datastore | VHC_USES_DS | Virtual Cluster uses Datastore |
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