VMWARE probe, how is the Guestdisk freepsace computed

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

How does the VMWARE probe is computing the GuestDisk//var/db_dump free space and where are the numbers taken from?

Environment

uim 8.5.1
vmware probe 7.11
ESX 5.5
VM Linux redhat 6.8

Resolution

The probe uses the Managed Object Browser, which is a separate API designed specifically for other applications to grab metrics from the VMware instance. The probe grabs metrics straight from the MOB. 
You can fiund information's via https://<ip>/mob 
The data's given by VMware probe are the same as the information given by https://<ip>/mob 

Please go to https://<IP>/mob 
login is needed 
press content 
press ha-folder-root 
press ha-data-center 
press ha-folder-vm 
next to childentity press on the number for your VM press on guests press on disk 

that should bring up the GuestDiskInfo 
sample 
capacity long 64317550592 
diskPath string "C:\" 
dynamicProperty DynamicProperty[] Unset 
dynamicType string Unset 
freeSpace long 28552278016 

The formular would be freeSpace / capacity * 100 

That is the value the probe is getting its information and not from the any linux command. 

Additional Information

This youtube video is walk through the mob 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4waZg2juMxg