When a virtual machine is running on an ESXi host, you can use the vmware-toolbox-cmd help stat command to display information such as host time and CPU speed. Additional subcommands are available for virtual machines in a vSphere environment.
Subcommand Name | Description |
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hosttime | Displays the date and time on the host. |
speed | Displays the CPU speed, in MHz. |
balloon | Displays the amount of memory that is currently reclaimed from the virtual machine through ballooning, in megabytes. |
swap | Displays the current amount of memory swapped out to the virtual machine's swap file, in megabytes. |
memlimit | Displays memory limit information, in megabytes. |
memres | Displays memory reservation information, in megabytes. |
cpures | Displays CPU reservation information, in MHz. |
cpulimit | Displays CPU limit information, in MHz. |
sessionid | Displays the current session ID. |