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tdubb123
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Hosts overcommiting memory - vcheck

in vcheck we are checking for Host overcommiting memory

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but the host does not have overcommited memory in vcenter

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any idea why?

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LucD
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That plugin looks at the total memory assigned to the powered on VMs, not what they are actually using.
And then compares that with the total physical memory present on the ESXi node.

If the first value is bigger than the second, it considers that as overcommit


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