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Deland02
Contributor
Contributor
‎05-09-2014 02:18 AM

Ballooning

I have some questions around ballooning

I have a server which keeps ballooning, I checked the host and its not even using 50% of its RAM, there are no reservations set on the server and were not using any shares. I added more vRAM and the balloon driver stopped ballooning.

My understanding was the balloon drive kicked in when the host doesn't have enough resources free but I have 50% of RAM free. Am I wrong on this?

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Linjo
Leadership
Leadership
‎05-09-2014 03:18 AM

Have you any limits configured for the VM? That is usually what is causing this.

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King_Robert
Hot Shot
Hot Shot
‎05-09-2014 03:22 AM

Have you checked that your VMware tools is running properly  on VM.

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vNEX
Expert
Expert
‎05-09-2014 08:27 AM

Hi,


can you please post some output from ESXTOP... for memory metric especially:

MCTLSZ, SWCUR, SWR/s, SWW/s


And also tell us more about your environment ...

Thanks

Regards,

P.

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