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title: "Host"
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# Host

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th>
      <p> Object </p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p> Counter </p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p> Instance </p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:45%;">
      <p> Definition </p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Balancer </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="AvailableMemory" id="AvailableMemory"/> Available Memory </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The amount of memory that the Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Balancer can assign to virtual machines. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Balancer </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="AveragePressurePct" id="AveragePressurePct"/> % Memory Pressure </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Average memory pressure for all virtual machines across the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="VirtualProcessors" id="VirtualProcessors"/> Virtual Processors </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The number of virtual processors configured for all VMs running on the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="vmTotal" id="vmTotal"/> VM Total </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Total number of virtual machines registered on the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="vmRunning" id="vmRunning"/> VM Running </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Number of powered on virtual machines on the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="vmPoweredOff" id="vmPoweredOff"/> VM Powered Off </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Number of virtual machines in the shutdown (powered off) state on the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="vmPaused" id="vmPaused"/> VM Paused </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Number of virtual machines in the paused (suspended) state on the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="vmSaved" id="vmSaved"/> VM Saved </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Number of virtual machines in the saved state on the Hyper-V host. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="HypervisorRunTimePct" id="HypervisorRunTimePct"/> % Hypervisor Run Time </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Percentage of physical processor time used to run the hypervisor. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="TotalRunTimePct" id="TotalRunTimePct"/> % Total Run Time </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Percentage of physical processor time used to run both VMs and the hypervisor. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="cpuUsageMHz" id="cpuUsageMHz"/> CPU Usage MHz </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The current CPU usage for the Hyper-V server (in MHz). </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Root Virtual Processor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> % Avg Dispatch Wait Time </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The average time (in percentage) that a virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Root Virtual Processor </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> % Max Dispatch Wait Time </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The maximum time (in percentage) that a virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Memory </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="MemoryUsedMB" id="MemoryUsedMB"/> Memory Used MB </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Physical memory usage on the Hyper-V host in MB. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Memory </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="MemoryUsedPct" id="MemoryUsedPct"/> % Memory Used </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> Memory used divided by total physical memory, as a percentage. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Memory </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="PagesSec" id="PagesSec"/> Pages/sec </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> 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. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> System </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="ContextSwitchesSec" id="ContextSwitchesSec"/> Context Switches/sec </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The number of times a virtual processor had been scheduled to a particular logical processor. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> System </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="ProcessorQueueLength" id="ProcessorQueueLength"/> Processor Queue Length </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%;">
      <p> The number of threads that are currently queued up and waiting to be executed on the processor. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

## Host NET

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th>
      <p> Object </p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p> Counter </p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p> Instance </p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:45%;">
      <p> Definition </p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p> Hyper-V Network Adapter </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a name="OutputQueueLength" id="OutputQueueLength"/> Output Queue Length </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> AdapterName </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> 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. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>