Virtual Machine
StatisticsLast Updated December 16, 2024
With the Guest API, you can monitor various
statistics about the virtual machine. You can use this information to retrieve
scheduling and resource usage information about the environment. With the help
of these statistics, a virtual machine can immediately react to changes in its
virtual environment at the application layer.
The information you can retrieve by using the
vSphere Guest API includes:
- Amount of memory reserved for the virtual machine.
- Amount of memory being used by the virtual machine.
- Upper limit of memory available to the virtual machine.
- Number of memory shares assigned to the virtual machine.
- Maximum speed of the virtual machine’s CPU.
- Reserved rate at which the virtual machine is allowed to execute. An idling virtual machine might consume CPU cycles at a much lower rate.
- Number of CPU shares assigned to the virtual machine.
- Elapsed time since the virtual machine was last powered on or reset.
- CPU time consumed by a particular virtual machine. When combined with other measurements, you can estimate how fast the virtual machine’s CPUs are running compared to the host CPUs.The API uses a handle that provides access to the statistics. The handle also is a mechanism to determine whether the API can provide accurate information. (Certain events, such as migrating a virtual machine with VMotion™, temporarily make it impossible to provide accurate information.)