We have a monitoring software that is alerting that a virtual server has high memory usage, when the admin of that server logs in to the Windows Server 2008 box he see's windows is reporting 90% memory usage:
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However when we look at the Performance tab in vSphere we see that vmware thinks the VM is only using on average 12% memory:
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What explains the difference that not only I can understand better but also explain to the server admin and management as to why the huge difference in numbers?
Thanks in advance.
Steven