Installation guide

CHAPTER 6 Administering ESX Server
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Seeing How Memory Is Utilized
The Memory Utilization page shows how much memory is being used by the ESX
Server and how memory resources are allocated to virtual machines. For more
information about memory utilization, refer to Memory Resource Management on
page 403.
System Summary: Physical Memory
This chart shows the current allocation of physical memory on the server:
• Virtual Machines — memory currently allocated to virtual machines
• Shared Common — memory required for the single copy of memory shared
between virtual machines
• Virtualization — total virtualization overhead for all virtual machines and the
vmkernel
• Service Console — memory allocated to the Service Console
• Free — memory currently available to be used by the system or virtual machines
• Total — total physical memory on the server