Memory Balloon (Balloon)


Displays the amount of memory resources in megabytes currently being used by a virtual machine or a host. The alarm ranges of this parameter are inactive by default. You can set them to alarm when memory used exceeds a certain limit.

Note

The Memory Balloon attribute in BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management is referred as Balloon parameter in BMC PATROL.

Default parameter attributes

Attribute

Default value

BMC PATROL properties

Application class

Command type

not applicable

Platform

all

Icon style

graph

Unit

megabytes

Auto scale

0-100 active

Border range

undefined

Alarm1 range

undefined

Alarm2 range

undefined

Scheduling(poll time)

inherits the poll time of collector

Active at installation

yes

Parameter type

consumer

Value set by

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properties

Monitor type

VMware Memory

Key Performance Indicator

No

Monitor for abnormalities

No

Graph by default

No

Availability

No

Response time

No

Normal distribution

Yes

Statistical

Yes

 

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