| Name | Description | Required? | Pipeline Input | Default Value |
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| Name | Specify the names of the statistics types you want to retrieve. | false | false | |
| Entity | Specify clusters, virtual machine hosts, resource pools, or virtual machines, for which you want to retrieve the available statistics types. | true | true (ByValue) | |
| Start | Specify the beginning of the time range for which the statistics types you want to retrieve are collected. The valid format is dd/mm/yyyy. This value corresponds to the server time. When the start time is omitted, the returned statistics types start from the first available statistics type in the system. | false | false | |
| Finish | Specify the end of the time range for which the statistics types you want to retrieve are collected. The valid format is dd/mm/yyyy. This value corresponds to the server time. When the finish time is omitted, the returned result includes up to the most recent statistics type. | false | false | |
| Interval | Specify the interval, at which the statistics types you want to retrieve are gathered. The interval can be specified by its name or by its sampling period in seconds. | false | false | |
| Realtime | Indicate that you want to retrieve realtime statistics type as well. If this parameter is set, the Start and Finish parameters are ignored. | false | false | |
| Server | Specify the vSphere servers on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-VIServer. | false | false | |
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Get-StatType -Entity VM
Retrieves the statistics types collected for the VM virtual machine.