Reference Guide

vFoglight Rules 71
Virtual Machine Rules
•“Navigation View” on page 98
•“Infrastructure Overview” on page 99
•“Alarms Overview” on page 102
•“Alarms List View” on page 103
VMW Virtual Machine Balloon Memory Deflation
Purpose
This rule monitors for virtual machines working excessively to reclaim memory.
To better balance memory utilization across hosts in a cluster, you can add more
physical resources to a host or you can use VMotion to move a virtual machine from
one host to another.
Scope
VMWVirtualMachineMemory
Views Displaying Alarms Based on this Rule
•“Virtual Infrastructure View” on page 89
•“vmExplorer Primary View” on page 91
•“Summary View” on page 92
•“Related Objects Views” on page 95
Rule Definition
Conditions State Action
The balloon has not been growing excessively and is
deflating normally.
Normal None
The balloon has reached 20% of the host's memory
over the course of the last 90 minutes and has failed
to deflate to less than 5% over the last 15 minutes.
Warning None
The balloon has reached 20% of the host's memory
over the course of the last 90 minutes and has failed
to deflate to less than 12% over the last 15 minutes.
Critical None