As of the vSphere 6.0 release, VMware Tools have expanded support for guest operating system statistics. Rather than offering a fixed set of statistics after calling VMGuestLib_UpdateInfo() , a larger and extensible set of statistics are available by calling VMGuestLib_StatGet() , or by using the CLI.
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Guest OS and Statistics Fetch Guest Statistics Interfaces Fetching a List of Statistics NULL , or "" ). The returned buffer contains a list of available metric categories. The list can be emitted in any of four supported formats. The text format is recommended for user interaction; machine-parsable formats xml , json , and yaml are recommended for program interaction.Metadata Fields Metrics Examples
