Memory of the host indicated in vCOPS v vCenter

Hello

One of the things that I find vCOPS is that a lot of things I thought I knew now goes out the window.

Before vCOPS, we relied on vCenter and when the host started to use memory 80 or 85% report that it was time to add more RAM.
It seemed that many people use this figure as a reference point.

vCenter reports now that my guests are sitting at 90 and I get the occasional alarm.
Normally I would have placed an order and more material. I have this presentation vCOPS VMware which tells me that some said vCenter is accurate.

vCOPS says (under Details > workload) that my workload memory resembles 32%.

Memory | Use meter displays the host memory as is vCenter but memory | demand is actually 32% of and this is the number I need.

On the one hand, it's cool that everything is green in vCops, on the other hand, I'm nervous because fibrotic vCenter.

I have to start ignoring vCenter, now that I have vCOPS running?


See you soon

Well, I said that the issue of memory management is complicated.   We try to make easy to use Ops vC, but obviously some of the complications come through.

In any case, Yes, I think that it's ok to ignore what tells VC.  Since you are always run things a certain way according to VC, it is probably better to start overcommitting slowly.  (Evolutionary change is always better than revolutionary.)  But the general response is that Yes, VC alerts are generally much too conservative and aren't really take a variety of performance data into account.

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