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Table C-5. Memory Data Counters (Continued)
Counter Label Description
Entity
V H R C
swapunreserved Memory Swap
Unreserved
Amount of memory that is unreserved by swap.
n
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: average (min/max)
n
Collection Level: 2(4)
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swapused Memory Swap
Used
Amount of memory that is used by swap. Sum of Memory
Swapped of all powered on virtual machines and vSphere services
on the host.
n
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: average (min/max)
n
Collection Level: 1(4)
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sysUsage Memory Used
by VMkernel
Amount of memory used by the VMkernel. Amount of machine
memory used by the VMkernel for “core” functionality (such as its
own internal uses, device drivers, etc). It does not include memory
used by VMs or by vSphere services.
n
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: average (min/max)
n
Collection Level: 2(4)
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totalmb Memory Total Total amount of machine memory of all hosts in the cluster that is
available for virtual machine memory (physical memory for use
by the Guest OS) and virtual machine overhead memory.
Memory Total = Aggregate host machine memory - (VMkernel
memory + Service Console memory + other service memory)
n
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: megaBytes
n
Rollup Type: average
n
Collection Level: 1
n
VC/ESX: Yes/No
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unreserved Memory
Unreserved
Amount of memory that is unreserved. Memory reservation not
used by the Service Console, VMkernel, vSphere services and other
powered on VMs’ user-specified memory reservations and
overhead memory.
NOTE This statistic is no longer relevant to virtual machine
admission control, as reservations are now handled through
resource pools.
n
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: average (min/max)
n
Collection Level: 2(4)
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