Installation guide

C H A P T E R 5 Using the VMware Service Console
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Note: The contents and format of the /proc/vmware directory may change
between releases of ESX Server.
/proc/vmware Entry Description
chipset State of interrupt controllers.
config Advanced ESX Server parameters available through the VMware
Management Interface.
debug Debugging information.
filters Network traffic shaping. See Traffic Shaping with nfshaper on page 430.
interrupts Used, together with chipset, to determine the state of interrupt
controllers.
log VMkernel log output.
loglevels Amount of debug logging.
mem Memory parameters. See Memory Resource Management on page 403.
migration Reserved for future use.
net Configuration and statistics for virtual NICs and bond devices. See Binding
Physical Adapters on page 373
.
pci State of PCI adapters in the system (what they are and how they’re
partitioned).
procstats Statistics for the /proc/vmware directory.
pshare Page sharing statistics for memory resource management. See Sharing
Memory Across Virtual Machines on page 408
and Memory Sharing on
page 425
.
rpcstats Statistics on remote procedure calls (RPCs).
sched Scheduler statistics on memory and CPU.
scsi Information on SCSI devices and mappings between storage controllers
and virtual machines.
shrdev Statistics on shared devices.
stats Counts of various low-level events in ESX Server.
swap Swap statistics.
thermmon Thermal monitoring information for each Pentium® 4 processor.
timers State of ESX Server internal timed event scheduler.
uptime ESX Server uptime.
vm Statistics for individual virtual machines by VMID.
vmkperf Statistics on ESX Server performance.
watchpoints Statistics for debugging.