A database administrator has reported periodic poor performance on a particular virtual
machine. The virtual machine administrator has noticed a significant drop in performance
when utilized memory exceeds 1GB. What does this indicate and what could be checked
next?
A.
The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU
affinity settings should be checked for this virtual machine.
B.
The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU
utilization should be checked next, using Windows Task Manager.
C.
The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Compression and swap
activity on the ESXi host should be checked next.
D.
The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Ensure the memory limit
on the VM is set to 0 MB.
Using ESX top you’d serach for paging & compression. Ballooning onitself is not so harmfull unless several VMs (on the same host) start paging at the same time and %Active on Host increases.