How to get VMWare CPU and memory reservation information from the OS command line (4307217)

How can VMWare CPU and memory reservations be found using VMWare tool commands from the Operating System (OS) command line?

What VMWare tools commands are available to find a virtual machine (VM) CPU and memory reservations?

Where are VMWare reservations be set?

A reservation specifies the guaranteed minimum allocation for a virtual machine.

Here are two examples of how ESX based Virtual Machine (VM) system properties appear in vSphere with no CPU or Memory reservations.

Without CPU reservations	Without memory reservations

With CPU reservations	With memory reservations

Finding VMWare reservations from the command line using VMWare Tools

By using the VMware toolset (if installed on the virtual machine (VM) the reservation information is available.

CPU reservations

For Windows:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmwaretoolboxcmd.exe stat cpures

For Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris

./usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd stat cpures

For example

Memory reservations

In Windows:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmwaretoolboxcmd.exe stat memres 

For Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris

./usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd stat memres 

For example

Allocating VM resource reservations in the vSphere client

1. In the vSphere Client, right-click a virtual machine from the inventory and select Edit Settings.
2. In the Virtual Machine Properties window, select the Resources tab and select Memory.
   
3. In the Resource Allocation panel, set the appropriate memory reservations.
4. Next, select the Resources tab and select CPU.
   
5. In the Resource Allocation panel, set the appropriate memory reservations.
6. Click the OK button