You can check the memory waste levels of a virtual machine host for a specific period of time. For example, you can check the memory waste levels in the last month.

Verify that you are connected to a vRealize Operations Manager instance.

Verify that you are connected to the vCenter Server system that is monitored by the vRealize Operations Manager instance.

1

Browse the vCenter Server inventory and select a virtual machine host for which you want to check the memory waste levels.

$vmHost = Get-VMHost 'MyHost'
2

Get the vRealize Operations Manager resource that refers to this virtual machine host.

$hostResource = $vmHost | Get-OMResource
3

Check the defined metrics for this vRealize Operations Manager resource type.

Get-OMStatKey -AdapterKind $hostResource.AdapterKind -ResourceKind $hostResource.ResourceKind
4

Get data for a specific metric.

$hostResource | Get-OMStat -Key "mem|waste"
Note

This command retrieves all available metric data with the highest available granularity.

5

Get metric data for the last month aggregated on a daily basis.

$hostResource | Get-OMStat -Key "mem|waste" -From ([datetime]::Now.AddMonths(-1)) -IntervalType Days -IntervalCount 1 -RollupType Avg