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Appendix C Performance Metrics Table C-5. Memory Data Counters Counter active consumed Label Description Memory Active Amount of memory actively used, as estimated by VMkernel. Active memory is based on the current workload of the virtual machine or host. VM Amount of guest physical memory in use by the virtual machine. Active memory is estimated by VMkernel statistical sampling and represents the actual amount of memory the virtual machine needs. Host Sum of the active guest physical memory of all powered on virtual machines on the host, plus memory used by basic VMKernel applications on the host. Memory Consumed n Stats Type: absolute n Unit: KiloBytes n Rollup Type: average (min/max) n Collection Level: 2(4) VM Host Cluster Amount of guest physical memory consumed by the virtual machine for guest memory. Consumed memory does not include overhead memory. It includes shared memory and memory that might be reserved, but not actually used. It does not include overhead memory. vm consumed memory = memory granted memory saved due to memory sharing Amount of machine memory used on the host. Consumed memory includes memory used by virtual machines, the service console, VMkernel, and vSphere services, plus the total consumed memory for all running virtual machines. host consumed memory = total host memory - free host memory Amount of host machine memory used by all powered on virtual machines in the cluster. A cluster's consumed memory consists of virtual machine consumed memory and overhead memory. It does not include host-specific overhead memory, such as memory used by the service console or VMkernel. n Stats Type: absolute n Unit: KiloBytes n Rollup Type: average (min/max) n Collection Level: 1(4) Entity VHR C VMware, Inc. 337