Identifiers and resources defined by the VMware collector
The VMware data collector defines the identifiers and resources described in this topic.
By default, the following data collected by the VMware collector is defined as chargeback identifiers and resource rate codes in the SampleVMWare.xml job file. The rate codes assigned to the resources are pre-loaded in the Rate table.
- Identifiers
- Feed (defined in the VMware collector job file)
- DataCenterName (the name of the data center)
- HostName (the name of the host server)
- HostName1 (the name of a host server in a cluster) 1
- ResourcePoolName1 (the name of the resource pool) 2
- VMName (the name of the virtual machine)
- VMDescription (a description for the virtual machine)
- VMGuestOSName (the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine)
- VMInstance (the instance of the device)
- DNSName (the DNS name of the host or the virtual machine)
- Resource Rate Codes
- VMCPUSYS (CPU Time Spent on System Processes)
- VMCPUWAT (CPU Time Spent on Wait State)
- VMCPURDY (CPU Time Spent on Ready State)
- VMCPUEXT (CPU Time That is Extra) 3
- VMCPUPCT (CPU Usage as a Percentage Over the Interval of Collection) 4
- VMCPUMHZ (CPU Usage in MHz Over the Interval of Collection)
- VMCPUUSE (VMware CPU Usage)
- VMCPUGUA (VMware CPU Usage Guaranteed) 3
- VMNETREC (VMware Network Packets Received)
- VMNETTRN (VMware Network Packets Transferred)
- VMDSKWRI (VMware Number of Disk Writes)
- VMDSKRED (VMware Number of Disk Reads)
- VMMEMAVL (Amount of Memory in Kilobytes That is Available for Use)4
- VMMEMUSD (Amount of Memory in Kilobytes That is Actively Used) 4
- RPCPULMT (Resource Pool Max Limit Amount of CPU in MHz)
- RPCPURES (Resource Pool Amount of CPU in MHz That Is Guaranteed Available)
- RPCPUEXP (Resource Pool CPU Reservation Is Fixed (1) or Expandable (2))5
- RPMEMLMT (Resource Pool Max Limit Amount of Memory in MB)
- RPMEMRES (Resource Pool Amount of Memory in MB That Is Guaranteed Available)
- RPMEMEXP (Resource Pool Memory Reservation Is Fixed (1) or Expandable (2))5
- VMCPURES (Configured CPU Reservation of the virtual machine in MHz)
- VMMEMRES (Configured Memory Reservation of the virtual machine in MB)
- VMMEMSIZ (Memory Size of the virtual machine in MB)
- VMNUMCPU (Number of processors in the virtual machine)
- VMDSCP1 (Total Capacity of the Disk Allocated to the virtual machine in KB)6
1 Depending
on how many hosts are added to the cluster, you can have multiple
host name identifiers (that is, HostName1, HostName2, HostName3, and
so on).
2 Depending
on the number of levels of resource pools that are configured, you
can have multiple resource pool identifiers (that is, ResourcePoolName1,
ResourcePoolName2, ResourcePoolName3, and so on).
3 Metric maybe deprecated depending on the
version of vCenter. Available up to and including ESX v3.5.0.
4 It is recommended
that this data is written to the resource utilization table. For more
information, see the DBLoad specific parameter attributes
5 If value is 1 then there is no fixed limit.
6 Multiple disk capacity rate codes can exist (that is, VMDSCP1,
VMDSCP2, VMDSCP3, and so on).