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