"Unballooning" RAM that's been ballooned by VMware
Solution 1:
VMware actually has a KB article that has this information:
To force the balloon driver to release its hold on memory and prevent the guest operating system from using swap space, use one of these options:
- Set the value of sched.mem.max to the allocated memory or greater.
- Select the virtual machine's Resources > Memory > Limit > Unlimited box.
- Migrate the virtual machine to another host.