Yeah, I'm hoping we can improve on how we communicate that difference in the UI and metric names in the future, until then it remains something that just has to be understood ... I did write up a "ELI5" take on how active / touched works in case someone else stumbles over it: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Reported-Memory-usage-on-SQL-VMs/m-p/2876282/high...