vCenter Server on Windows 2012 R2, high memory usage (vmafdd.exe)

[Natzuko]

Hello all,

This is my first post in vmware communities. So Hello-again 🙂

I create an account because I didn't find a solution of my issue in the Internet/forums. To finish, sorry for my bad English in advance.

Environment :

I have a production environment. 1 vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2 ESXi in cluster.

My ecosystem is in version 6.0.0 for the vCenter Server and my 2 ESXi.

Issue :

On my vCenter Server Windows, I have multiple services about VMware and I can see the service name VMware afd Service takes some much memory.

When I check the Task Manager, I can see a Process Name vmafdd.exe at the top of memory usage run by the service indicated above and I don't understand why.

When I run the following command to output the services and heap memory assigned to them : cloudvm-ram-size.bat -l

The result is not logic compared to my memory usage on the vCenter Server.

The reboot can release the memory, as you can see on my screenshot below.

This graph based on this year about the memory usage in percentage on the vCenter Server.

On my monitoring, I can see the memory falls gradually at each reboot server.

Maybe someone can help me here ?

Thanks by advance for your help

[scott28tt]

As your post needs moving to the area for vCenter Server, I have reported it to the volunteer moderators.

[Natzuko · Accepted solution]

Hello @scott28tt, thanks for your reply, I create a new ticket in the good area.

Good day to you.

[scott28tt]

Post reported to the volunteer moderators for a second time, now asking them to remove it since you created a duplicate.