A company runs several instances of an application that requires large amounts of memory.
Which three metrics are checked to diagnose a memory bottleneck at the ESXi host level? (Choose three)
A.
MEMSZ
B.
MEMCTL
C.
SWAP
D.
ZIP
E.
MCTLTGT
Explanation:
THIS IS A HIGHLY DEBATED QUESTION β SOOoooo If you think it is wrong please research thoroughly before requesting an updateβ¦ an official response from VMware would be nice. π3 metrics to diagnose a memory bottleneck at the ESXi host level: MEMSZ, MEMCTL, SWAP.
MEMSZ β Amount of physical memory allocated to a resource pool or virtual machine.
MEMCTL β Displays the memory balloon statistics. All numbers are in megabytes.
MCILTGT β Amount of physical memory the ESXi system attempts to reclaim from the resource pool or virtual machine by way of ballooning.
SWAP β When the VMkernel on the host is swapping memory to diskRevised; Answer is MEMSZ,MEMCTL,SWAP. Checked with VMWARE on this. Renegade_ZA
Ref: http://cosonok.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-memsz-memctl-swap-to-diagnose.html