Hi mcdonamwlON, not a problem. I understand you can see the counters on advanced chart fuctions, but have you tried to actually add the counters to the current view, let's say going back a week for example? no data will be shown, only the real time one. That's because of the configuration of Vcenter 5. What happens is, by default vcenter 4.1 has its statistics set to 2 on a daily basis. when this option is enabled the vcenter keep the detailed counters for a day, that way, in the overview you will be able to see the memory counters as shared, balloon target, active, swapped, ballon when you click on a VM (1 Day is the default view once you click the performance tab). When you upgraded for vcenter 5, the statistic for 1 day was set to level one instead of 2, and that's why you can't see the information you want. Since the statistics are stored in the vcenter database, it doesn't really matter what version of ESX(i) you are using, the vcenter does all the log keeping. That's why the change has to be done in the vcenter properties. I don't know why vmware changed that option on vcenter 5, they are maybe trying to reduce the size of the database, who knows. But the level of details was reduced on the vcenter 5. that's for sure. And in case you need a detailed performance chart you will have to edit the configuration yourself.
let me know if you still have doubts.
Regards,
Wiliam