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title: "Guest OS"
description: "Object Counter Instance Definition VMGuest-net % Bandwidth Used _Total % of bandwidth of all network adapters that is currently being used."
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dateModified: "2026-09-17"
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# Guest OS

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  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="height:21px;">
      <p> Object </p>
    </th>
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      <p> Counter </p>
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    <th style="height:21px; border-left:none;">
      <p> Instance </p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:45%; border-left:none;">
      <p> Definition </p>
    </th>
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  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none;">
      <p> VMGuest-net </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p><a name="netUsePct" id="netUsePct"/> % Bandwidth Used </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> % of bandwidth of all network adapters that is currently being used. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none;">
      <p> VMGuest-disk </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p><a name="diskTimePct" id="diskTimePct"/> % Disk Time </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> % Disk Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the guest disk drives was busy servicing read or write requests. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none;">
      <p> VMGuest-memory </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p><a name="memoryUsedPct" id="memoryUsedPct"/> % Memory Used </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> Physical memory in use. Total physical memory – memory immediately available for allocation to a process or for system use. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none;">
      <p> VMGuest-memory </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p><a name="pagingFileUsedPct" id="pagingFileUsedPct"/> % Page File Used </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> The total amount of all Page Files usage in percent. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
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    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none;">
      <p> VMGuest-cpu </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p><a name="cpuUsedPct" id="cpuUsedPct"/> % Processor Time </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> Percentage of elapsed time that the processor spends to execute a non-Idle thread of guest OS. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none;">
      <p> VMGuest-memory </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p><a name="PagesPersec" id="PagesPersec"/> Pages/sec </p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:20px; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> _Total </p>
    </td>
    <td style="width:45%; border-top:none; border-left:none;">
      <p> Pages/sec is the 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>
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  </tr>
</table>