VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0 Management Manual page 87

Table A-6. Memory Panel Statistics
Field
PMEM (MB)
VMKMEM (MB)
COSMEM (MB)
NUMA (MB)
PSHARE (MB)
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Description
Displays the machine memory statistics for the server. All numbers are in megabytes.
Total amount of machine memory in the server.
total
Amount of machine memory allocated to the ESX service console.
cos
Amount of machine memory being used by the ESX/ESXi
vmk
VMkernel.
Amount of machine memory being used by everything other than
other
the ESX service console and ESX/ESXi VMkernel.
Amount of machine memory that is free.
free
Displays the machine memory statistics for the ESX/ESXi VMkernel. All numbers are in
megabytes.
Total amount of machine memory managed by the ESX/ESXi
managed
VMkernel.
Minimum amount of machine memory that the ESX/ESXi
min free
VMkernel aims to keep free.
Total amount of machine memory currently reserved by resource
rsvd
pools.
Total amount of machine memory currently unreserved.
ursvd
Current machine memory availability state. Possible values are
state
high, soft, hard and low. High means that the machine memory
is not under any pressure and low means that it is.
Displays the memory statistics as reported by the ESX service console. All numbers are in
megabytes. This field is not displayed if you are using ESXi.
Amount of idle memory.
free
Total swap configured.
swap_t
Amount of swap free.
swap_f
Rate at which memory is swapped in from disk.
r/s is
Rate at which memory is swapped to disk.
w/s
Displays the ESX/ESXi NUMA statistics. This line appears only if the ESX/ESXi host is running
on a NUMA server. All numbers are in megabytes.
For each NUMA node in the server, two statistics are displayed:
The total amount of machine memory in the NUMA node that is managed by ESX/ESXi.
n
The amount of machine memory in the node that is currently free (in parentheses).
n
Displays the ESX/ESXi page-sharing statistics. All numbers are in megabytes.
Amount of physical memory that is being shared.
shared
Amount of machine memory that is common across worlds.
common
Amount of machine memory that is saved because of page
saving
sharing.
Appendix A Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
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