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Understand the alert

This alert is triggered when a virtual machine's memory usage in a vSphere environment is significantly higher than normal, indicating potential performance issues or insufficient memory allocation.

Troubleshoot the alert

  1. Check memory usage: Monitor the virtual machine's memory usage to identify potential bottlenecks or high memory consumption by applications.

  2. Inspect applications: Review applications running on the virtual machine to identify those consuming excessive memory, and determine if it's expected behavior or a memory leak.

  3. Adjust memory allocation: If the virtual machine consistently has high memory usage, consider increasing the allocated memory to improve performance.

  4. Optimize applications: Identify opportunities to optimize applications running on the virtual machine to reduce memory consumption.

  5. Monitor performance: Keep an eye on the virtual machine's performance metrics to ensure that changes in memory usage or allocation do not negatively impact performance.

Useful resources

  1. VMware vSphere Documentation
  2. vSphere Performance Monitoring and Analysis