Balloon pilot underway to run with a lot of available memory - looking for answers as to why.

I have a couple of ESX servers that are running Active balloon pilot, but there seems to be a lot of available memory to support current workloads. VC watching one of these ESX servers in the Summary tab memory use displays 14,08 GB of memory used out of 32 GB. When we look at ESXTOP = MEMCTL (Mo): 437 curr, target 437, max 10649. It seems that the balloon pilot has reached its target and I expect that he finish and stop the execution. NO VM have limits configuration for their use of resources, is not using pools of resources.  I'm just curious as to why these servers are showing a ball activity while the other ESX servers with much more demanding workloads are not... Thank you

What vesrion ESX? 3.5 has a reported bug.

Have you seen verified that the "unlimited" tab to the memory resource is checked for the customers in question?

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