Performance Counter
Metadata
Performance counters are organized by groups
of system resources. Examples of performance counter groups are memory, CPU,
and disk. The counter groups and specific counters used on any vSphere server
depend on the server configuration. The
vSphere API Reference
contains a table
for each counter group. The table includes the counter name, type of statistics
being collected, unit of measurement, level, and so on. The
vSphere API Reference
page for the
PerformanceManager
managed object
contains links to the tables.