System Metrics - VMware 4817V62 - vSphere - PC Administration Manual

Table C-7. Storage Utilization Data Counters
Counter Label
capacity Storage
Capacity
provisioned Allocated
unshared Not-shared
used Used

System Metrics

The system metric group tracks statistics for overall system availability. These counters are available directly
from ESX and from vCenter Server.
Table C-8 lists the system data counters.
N The system metrics appear only in the advanced performance charts, and only for hosts and virtual
OTE
machines.
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Description
Configured size of the datastore.
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: latest
n
Collection Level: 1
n
Amount of physical space allocated by an administrator for the datastore.
Provisioned space is not always in use; it is the storage size up to which
files on a datastore or virtual machine can grow. Files cannot expand
beyond this size.
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: latest
n
Collection Level: 1
n
Amount of datastore space that belongs only to the virtual machine and is
not shared with other virtual machines. Only unshared space is guaranteed
to be reclaimed for the virtual machine if, for example, it is moved to a
different datastore and then back again. The value is an aggregate of all
unshared space for the virtual machine, across all datastores.
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: latest
n
Collection Level: 1
n
Amount of space actually used by a virtual machine or a datastore. The
used amount can be less than the amount provisioned at any given time,
depending on whether the virtual machine is powered-off, whether
snapshots have been created, and other such factors.
Stats Type: absolute
n
Unit: kiloBytes
n
Rollup Type: latest
n
Collection Level: 1
n
Appendix C Performance Metrics
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