Data Object - PerfMetricId

Property of: MetricAlarmExpression, PerfMetricSeries, PerfQuerySpec
Returned by: QueryAvailablePerfMetric
Extends: DynamicData

Data Object Description

This data object type describes a performance counter with a performance counter ID and an instance name. The instance name identifies the instance and is derived from configuration names. For host and virtual machine devices, the instance name is the device name. For example, the name of the disk or name of the virtual Ethernet adapter. For a CPU, the instance names "0", "1", "2", and so on are used to identify the numeric order of the CPU. The following special characters are accepted in instance for a query:

instance = "*" -- returns all instances of the metric for the counterId.
instance = "" -- returns the aggregated statistics value.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
counterId	xsd:int	The ID for the statistics.
instance	xsd:string	The instance of the device.
Properties inherited from DynamicData
dynamicProperty, dynamicType

Show WSDL type definition

         <complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="PerfMetricId">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:DynamicData">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="counterId" type="xsd:int"/>
                     <element name="instance" type="xsd:string"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>