Use this grid to investigate the status of all virtual machines on the VMware server.

Name

Name of the virtual machine.

State

Power state of the virtual machine. For example, Powered On, Powered Off, or Suspended.

Host

Name of the physical machine that hosts the virtual machine.

Host CPU - MHz

Amount of CPU the virtual machine is using on the host.

Host Memory - MB

Amount of memory the virtual machine is using on the host.

Heartbeat

The status of communication between VMware VirtualCenter and the VMware Tools on the virtual machine.

Green Guest operating system is responding normally.
Yellow Intermittent heartbeat. May be due to guest load.
Red No heartbeat. Guest operating system may have stopped responding.
Gray VMware Tools are not installed or are not running.