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How much Virtual Machine memory is using NVMe Tiering?

09.23.2024 by William Lam // 4 Comments

I know many in the VMware Community have upgraded to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 to play with the exciting new NVMe Tiering feature, especially for testing various workloads including deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for homelab or testing purposes.

A question that has come up a few times now is how do I check the amount of VM memory that has been offloaded to Tier 1 memory (NVMe Tiering) versus using Tier 0 memory (DRAM)?

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Categories // ESXi, vSphere 8.0 Tags // ESXi 8.0 Update 3, memstats, NVMe

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William is Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. His primary focus is helping customers and partners build, run and operate a modern Private Cloud using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform.

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