Is there any indicators of "Balloon Usage" ? vmmemctl

[Nicodemus]

Is there somewhere I can check to see how often the balloon driver is kicked off on my VM's? Or an individual VM ?

- Nicodemus

[boy]

/proc/vmware/sched/mem

look for memctl

for individual VM

/proc/vmware/vm/WID/status

[Dave_Mishchenko]

You can get this live from esxtop and also from the performance chart in the VI client (look for memory balloon. Or are you looking for more of an alert email?

[Nicodemus]

Did not know which esxtop indicator would show it... just wanted to verify how often itis being invoked. Just digging around as I am having some intermitent CPU usages spikes...

- Nicodemus

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

You may be aware of this, but for the sake of others who might see this post

1) start esxtop and press m to see the memory counters

2) press f and then i to display the memctl counters for each vm as the default display only shows it for the host.

[Nicodemus]

Oh duh.. not sure how I missed the balloon driver indicator in the Perfomance chart... and thank you for the esxtop tip!

- Nicodemus