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Host

Host
Object	Counter	Instance	Definition
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Balancer	Available Memory	_Total	The amount of memory that the Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Balancer can assign to virtual machines.
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Balancer	% Memory Pressure	_Total	Average memory pressure for all virtual machines across the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor	Virtual Processors	_Total	The number of virtual processors configured for all VMs running on the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor	VM Total	_Total	Total number of virtual machines registered on the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor	VM Running	_Total	Number of powered on virtual machines on the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor	VM Powered Off	_Total	Number of virtual machines in the shutdown (powered off) state on the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor	VM Paused	_Total	Number of virtual machines in the paused (suspended) state on the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor	VM Saved	_Total	Number of virtual machines in the saved state on the Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor	% Hypervisor Run Time	_Total	Percentage of physical processor time used to run the hypervisor.
Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor	% Total Run Time	_Total	Percentage of physical processor time used to run both VMs and the hypervisor.
Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor	CPU Usage MHz	_Total	The current CPU usage for the Hyper-V server (in MHz).
Hyper-V Root Virtual Processor	% Avg Dispatch Wait Time	_Total	The average time (in percentage) that a virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.
Hyper-V Root Virtual Processor	% Max Dispatch Wait Time	_Total	The maximum time (in percentage) that a virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.
Memory	Memory Used MB	_Total	Physical memory usage on the Hyper-V host in MB.
Memory	% Memory Used	_Total	Memory used divided by total physical memory, as a percentage.
Memory	Pages/sec	_Total	Rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve hard page faults. This counter is a primary indicator of the kinds of faults that cause system-wide delays.
System	Context Switches/sec	_Total	The number of times a virtual processor had been scheduled to a particular logical processor.
System	Processor Queue Length	_Total	The number of threads that are currently queued up and waiting to be executed on the processor.

Host NET

Host NET
Object	Counter	Instance	Definition
Hyper-V Network Adapter	Output Queue Length	AdapterName	Length of the output queue (in packets). If the Output Queue Length is longer than 2, there are delays and the bottleneck should be found and eliminated, if possible.