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Chapter 12 VMware ESX Server Resource Management
The!preceding!output!is!shown!with!additional!line!breaks,!in!order!to!avoid!wrapping!
long!lines.!All!memory!sizes!are!reported!in!kilobytes;!1!megabyte!=!1024KB.!
The!columns!are!described!in!Table 12‐2.
In!this!example,!the!virtual!machine!with!ID!103!is !running!the!vmmemctl!driver!and!is!
not
!currently!blocked!waiting!for!memory.!The!virtual!machine!is!configured!to!use!
between!128MB!and!256MB!and!has!been!allocated!2560!memory!shares.!It!is!currently!
allocated!about!212MB.!Approximately!44MB!has!been!reclaimed!for!use!by!other!
virtual!machines—38MB!through!vmmemctl!and!nearly!6MB!by!swapping!to!the!ESX!
server!swap!file.!Of!the!212MB!allocated!to!the!virtual!machine,!more!than!37MB!is!
shared,!for!example,!with!other!virtual!machines.!The!current!working!set!estimate!for!
Table 12-2. Memory statistics
vm Virtual!machine!identifier.
mctl? vmmemctl!driver!active?.
shares Memory!shares!associated!with!the!virtual!machine.
min Minimum!size.
max Maximum!size.
size Current!size.
sizetgt Target!size.
memctl Currently!reclaimed!using!vmmemctl.
mctltgt Target!to!reclaim!using!vmmemctl.
swapped Currently!swapped!to!VMFS!swap!file.
swaptgt Target!to!swap!to!VMFS!swap!file.
swapin Total!number!of!pages!swapped!in!from!VMFS!swap!file.
swapout Total!number!of!
pages!swapped!out!to!VMFS!swap!file.
cptread (Resumed!virtual!machines!only)!Number!of!pages!read!from!suspend!file.
cpt‐tgt (Resumed!virtual!machines!only)!Number!of!pages!to!read!from!suspend!
file.
shared Memory!shared!through!transparent!page!sharing.
active Current!working!set!estimate.
overhd Current!overhead!memory!size.
ovhdmax Maximum!overhead!memory!size.
ovhdpeak Maximum!overhead!memory!used.
affinity (NUMA!machines
!only)!Memory!affinity!for!the!virtual!machine.