CTO, SAS developer

Ben Conner

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Hi ben<br />
&nbsp;how many ESxi host do you have in cluster..check which ever host has free memory &nbsp;you can vmotion some of the VMs to that server.
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Hi ben
 how many ESxi host do you have in cluster..check which ever host has free memory  you can vmotion some of the VMs to that server.

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I have only one production host and one backup, so I'll need to add another couple of sticks of memory to this one. &nbsp;In the meantime I can reduce load by moving some of the VMs off to a secondary host I have.<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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--Ben
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I have only one production host and one backup, so I'll need to add another couple of sticks of memory to this one.  In the meantime I can reduce load by moving some of the VMs off to a secondary host I have.

Thanks!

--Ben

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Hi Ben,<br />
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yes you need to move some VMs to other host to free-up some memory from the first host.. if you need further assitance pls let me &nbsp;know..
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Hi Ben,

yes you need to move some VMs to other host to free-up some memory from the first host.. if you need further assitance pls let me  know..

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In vSphere 6.7, a host has several memory management techniques. &nbsp;When should I start considering adding more memory? &nbsp;Is the summary graph below something I need to act on?<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2019/12_w51/1439371/hostmem.JPG" target="_blank" title="host summary (18 KB)"><img alt="host summary" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 375px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2019/12_w51/1439371/hostmem.JPG" /></a><br />
Thanks!<br />
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--Ben
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In vSphere 6.7, a host has several memory management techniques.  When should I start considering adding more memory?  Is the summary graph below something I need to act on?



Thanks!

--Ben

When to add memory to a host

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.