VMware Exam Questions

Which three metrics are checked to diagnose a memory bottleneck at the ESXi host level?

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:
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3 metrics to diagnose a memory bottleneck at the ESXi host level: MEMSZ, MEMCTL, SWAP.

MEMSZ – Amount of physical memory allocated to a resource pool or virtual machine.
MEMCTL – Displays the memory balloon statistics. All numbers are in megabytes.
MCILTGT – Amount of physical memory the ESXi system attempts to reclaim from the resource pool or virtual machine by way of ballooning.
SWAP – When the VMkernel on the host is swapping memory to disk

Revised; 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