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title: "Number of Virtual Machines"
description: "This report aggregates historical data and shows the number of virtual machines (total, active, suspended and turned off) across a time range."
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# Number of Virtual Machines

This report aggregates historical data and shows the number of virtual machines (total, active, suspended and turned off) across a time range.

## Example Output

In this example, the report on total number and number of active VMs has been run for the selected vSphere hosts for this month.

To run this report:

1. Open the **vSphere Hosts. Number of Virtual Machines** report.
2. From the **Data Aggregation** list, select *Daily*.
3. From the **From** list, select *This month* > *First day*. From the **To** list, select *This month* > *Last day*.
4. From the **Histogram** list, select *No*.
5. In the **Split into sections by** list, select *VMware vSphere Host*.
6. In the **Scope** section, include the necessary host in the report.
7. From the **One chart for** list, select *Counter*.
8. In the **Counters** list, select *VMHost\\vmActive (HOST.Collect.vmActive) and VMHost\\vmTotal (HOST.Collect.vmTotal)*.
9. Click **Run** to view the report.

[![vSphere Hosts: Number of Virtual Machines Report Settings](images/number_of_vms_controls.png "vSphere Hosts: Number of Virtual Machines Report Settings")](images/number_of_vms_controls.png){.toggle scale=65}

The report will show how the total number and number of active VMs have been changing for the selected vSphere host during the month.

In this example, the report shows that the number of active VMs increased significantly on 04.04. and then stayed without any changes after 06.04.

[![vSphere Hosts: Number of Virtual Machines Report Output](images/number_of_vms_output.png "vSphere Hosts: Number of Virtual Machines Report Output")](images/number_of_vms_output.png){.toggle scale=59}

Total number of VMs, on the other hand, has been decreasing since 01.04., but on 04.04. there was a leap, after which the number of VMs stayed the same till the end of the month.

[![vSphere Hosts: Number of Virtual Machines Report Output Details](images/number_of_vms_total_output.png "vSphere Hosts: Number of Virtual Machines Report Output Details")](images/number_of_vms_total_output.png){.toggle scale=59}

The table will detail daily VMs numbers (sample count, average, minimum and maximum and standard deviation values).

You can click the **Instance: \_Total** link in the output table to drill down to the Veeam Performance Details Report from the [Veeam Report Library](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/reportlib/guide/veeam_performance_details_report.html?ver=90).