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vCenter Heartbeat Memory Pages / Sec value Exceeded posted: Jul 20, 2009 11:23 AM

Click to view jkasal's profile Novice 10 posts since
Jun 7, 2008
Hey Community,

I am receiving the following error...

"VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Application Warning. This happened at Mon Jul 20 11:13:01 CDT 2009 on the Primary SVCTEST-OLA01 while Active. Further information if available: Rule Triggered: Memory Pages / Sec value exceeded". When this error is triggered, replication seems to hang and is difficult to get back going. I need to restart Heartbeat on both servers to get it back going again. This happens several times a day

VMware vCenter server/ Heartbeat are running in a V2V environment. Each VM has 4 GB of Ram, 1 vCPU, C:\ 16 GB (OS), D:\ 12 (DB Data), E:\ 20 GB (VUM). The VMDKs of the Primary are sitting on an 8 disk Raid 10 FC LUN on a CX700 (LUN as Moderate peak usage). The secondary is sitting on a LUN of similar specs except on a CX500.

The real Kicker is that this environment is entirely a test environment and has no load. Only one test host is registered with this vCenter. No VMs are registered. This is a WAN deployment accross a VPN from a datacenter in the Central Time zone to a datacenter in the Pacific time zone.

Anyone have any ideas what may be causing this error? Could this be related to only 1 vCPU on the VM?

Thanks,

Jkasal

Re: vCenter Heartbeat Memory Pages / Sec value Exceeded

1. Jul 21, 2009 10:45 AM in response to: jkasal
Click to view justinking's profile Enthusiast 32 posts since
Apr 4, 2007

Jkasal, the parameters defined for operat system performance are by default, typical Microsoft recommendations and may need to be adjusted so a baseline can be set for setting into action. Also this alarm will not clear itself once the values return to normal so it maybe just a case of a spike at startup or similar causing this as you state it is an empty environment.

I would suggest monitoring the value with perfmon and adjust the value as necessary.

Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/

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