Quick Bites:
- Understanding memory usage and optimizing it in virtual environments like VMware is crucial for efficient resource management and maximizing performance. As we can understand, inadequate memory allocation can lead to performance degradation, resource contention, and potential system failures, impacting overall workload performance and user experience
- This blog delves into understanding various memory metrics in VMware vSphere, aiming to clarify their meanings and implications for troubleshooting
- It outlines key metrics like Consumed, Granted, Active, Overhead, Shared, Ballooned, Compressed, Swapped, SwapIn, and SwapOut, explaining their significance and how they impact virtual machine performance
- Emphasizing the importance of proper memory management, the blog provides insights into memory reclamation techniques such as ballooning, compression, and swapping, offering practical tips for optimizing memory usage in virtualized environments.
The virtual machine monitoring tab of vCenter provides a lot of very useful information about the various resources being used by it. One of them is the memory and it includes a lot of metrics which can be confusing at the start to know what they mean and what to do with them.
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