Swap values for virtual machines are not displayed in the esxtop "VM only" memory view on ESXi 5.1
Article ID: 305155
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Products
VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
- vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client correctly indicate host and individual VM hypervisor swapping
- esxtop memory view (m) with VM only (shift-v) shows overall host hypervisor swapping but does not attribute it to a virtual machine:
VM only memory view (shift-v):(...)SWAP /MB: 459 curr, 453 rclmtgt: 0.00 r/s, 0.00 w/sZIP /MB: 54 zipped, 34 savedMEMCTL/MB: 1023 curr, 1023 target, 1629 maxView VM onlyID GID NAME MEMSZ GRANT SZTGT GID than the VM world:Default memory view:(...)SWAP /MB: 459 curr, 454 rclmtgt: 0.00 r/s, 0.00 w/sZIP /MB: 54 zipped, 34 savedMEMCTL/MB: 1023 curr, 1023 target, 1629 maxID GID NAME MEMSZ GRANT SZTGT (...) SWCUR SWTGT (...)32603 32603 WindowsServer20 2048.00 511.11 547.75 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)32605 32605 vm-vmx.22799 2048.00 511.11 547.75 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)32606 32606 vm-vmm.22799 2048.00 511.11 547.75 (...) 459.73 454.21 (...)83463 83463 SLES11SP2_mem_p 1024.00 604.00 699.11 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)83465 83465 vm-vmx.52303 1024.00 604.00 699.11 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)83466 83466 vm-vmm.52303 1024.00 604.00 699.11 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)1828 1828 hostd.5053 57.48 42.82 47.11 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)2402 2402 vpxa.5353 23.52 15.65 17.21 (...) 0.00 0.00 (...)(...)
Environment
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1
Cause
This is a display error in esxtop. The vm-vmm group's swap values should be rolled up into the VM group's swap values.
Resolution
Other methods of checking per VM swap via the API, CLI or GUI are still available and are not affected by this display issue.
To check per VM swapping on the ESXi console, you can use memstats. To map the VMX Cartel ID to the virtual machine's display name or .vmx path, you can use esxcli vm process list .
~ # memstats -r vm-stats -s name:b:memSize:max:swapTgt:swapped -u mb -v
VIRTUAL MACHINE STATS
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Start Group ID : 0
No. of levels : 12
Unit : MB
Selected columns : name:b:memSize:max:swapTgt:swapped
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name b memSize max swapTgt swapped
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vm.22799 y 2048 512 451 457
vm.52303 y 1024 -1 0 0
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Total 3072 451 457
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Description of report header labels:
name: Virtual machine name
b: Is balloon driver active?
memSize: Guest physical memory size
max: Configured host physical memory limit for guest
swapTgt: Host swap target
swapped: Amount swapped by host
~ # esxcli vm process list | grep -A3 22799
VMX Cartel ID: 22799
UUID: 42 30 b6 27 ac d0 c0 63-f2 02 c9 85 73 5c 7d ad
Display Name: WindowsServer2012GA
Config File: /vmfs/volumes/50754a72-c3572cc0-2f5e-002522e84d6a/WindowsServer2012GA/WindowsServer2012GA.vmx
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