Symptoms:
- GI SVM memory exceeds 75% and guest workloads may be impacted.
- Log messages on the GI SVM show that connection rates exceed capacity.
- UI alerts will show if the GI SVM has exceeded memory threshold.
- In the vsm.log file, you see entries similar to:
2017-12-28 05:08:07.203 GMT INFO messagingTaskExecutor-1 EventServiceImpl:128 - [SystemEvent] Time:'Thu Dec 28 05:08:07.200 GMT 2017', Severity:'Critical', Event Source:'Guest Introspection Health Status', Code:'260009', Event Message:'High memory usage on GI SVM on host-3188.', Module:'Guest Introspection Health Status', Universal Object:'false'
- In the Networking & Security > Events > System Events, you see a recorded event of Code:'260009' and Event Message:'High memory usage on GI SVM on host-XXXX.'
Note: Use the vSphere Managed Object Browser to identify the problem host from the host moid (host-XXXX) logged in the Event Message.