CPU usage by a process in a virtual machine

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• Get Foglight - App_Monitor, CPU usage of the process of

  All,

  What is the path in the template to write a rule for the CPU usage of a process which is monitored with the App_Monitor?

  For a while now with no luck real digging into the model.

  Sir I wat a rule if a process has less de.1% CPU, triggers a warning.

  I think that the subject of topology is AppMonitor_ProcessTotals

  Look at the rule called "Process_Availability", you can probably copy and reuse

  

  If you look at data from the server, it will be under Foglight4Model > IPMap > (host name) > Agents > (App monitor agent) > Tables > ProcessTotals

  Golan

• Settings of CPU and memory of reserve on the virtual machine running...

  Hello.

  I have two virtual machines in production with CPU and memory settings of reservation applied as shown below. I want to adjust these settings of reservation to "zero" for the CPU and memory on both virtual machines.

  I can make these adjustments while VMS are running, or do I need to power their first?

  Any advice would be appreciated.

  Thank you!

  

  

  Welcome to the community,

  Booking of resources being completely transparent for the customer, i.e. a host function, there is no need to turn off the virtual machines. Basically all settings in are available to be changed in the editable GUI generally without interruption of service comments.

  André

• Identify the process of the virtual machine in the Service Console

  Maybe it's a little challenging, but I need to "hang" a VM intentionally for purposes of Compliance\Qualification.  I'm trying to understand the best way to do this and my colleague suggested to connect to the service console, identify the process virtual machine running and terminate, so suspend the virtual machine.  The problem is, I'm not sure how to proceed.  Could someone point me to the light?

  Thank you very much.

  Steve

  You must know the name of the vmx file (usually it is the first name of the virtual machine).

  Then, connect SSH (or console) to your ESX and run the following command

  PS auxfww | grep 'VMXname '.

  At this point, you can locate the correct PID of the virtual machine. The first number to appear in the output is your PID.

  The PID can be used to complete the process by issuing the command kill-9 PID.

  André

• The Windows 7 CPU usage does not correspond to processes

  I used this system with Win7 64 bit for years and the normal use of the processor is 3% (I keep a monitor app open all the time).  After a reboot, this morning, my use is stuck around 20%.  Nothing terrible and my performance is fine, but it worries me because it is not normal.  In addition, according to the focus of the mouse, 'busy' animation always goes, so it really seems that something is running.  What is really strange is that I can not reconcile the CPU usage by the process of use/idle.  When I bring up the Task Manager and look at the processes tab, the system idle process is consistently in the upper 90s and some processes show sometimes 1 or 2%.  This is all quite normal and I expect to see.  But the use of the CPU at the bottom of the window indicates 20% or more.  It makes no sense at all.  Idle process + the CPU usage must be about 100%.  I realize that it has rounded passes with the percentages of process, but inactive processes should be 100 - all processes and thus only one percent or so off, not 15% off service.

  Is it possible that a process is running, that is hidden from me?  It seems unlikely that even if that were the case, it should affect the % idle process.  I did go to the performance tab and click on the "Resource monitor" button to get more details, but who do not appear to reveal something new.  Processes use about 20%, service about 1 or 2%.  The list of the process here does not show the idle process, but looking at the process I see only 3-5% use if I add.  This page gives percentages for the 100th of one percent, so it is not the question of rounding.

  In the past, I could always correlate the use of the CPU in the process and you could see that was consuming the CPU and kill him if necessary.  But now I don't know what is happening.  Any suggestions on what to check would be appreciated.

  I also, tried MSCONFIG and services and putting in service of the elements, everything makes sense, so I didn't try a clean boot.  I have a system restore a few weeks ago (and the data is backed up each night), but I'd rather not have to go through all this.

  Thanks for the help.

  Hello Bob,

  I'm glad to know that you have addressed the issue.

  Your efforts to solve this problem is appreciated. We appreciate the time taken by you to share the resolution. I don't know that it would be beneficial to other members of the community as well.

  Please do not hesitate to answer, in the case where you are facing in the future other problems with Windows.

  Thank you

• How to find reported by QueryPerf such cpu usage meter.

  Hello world

  I am writing a script which collects data of performance, in particular cpu usage percentage, of various hosts and virtual.

  I retrieve the data using QueryPerf, in the same way that the viperformance.pl script made.

  Recently, I noticed that the values for the cpu usage percentage are too big for a percentage IE. greater than 100.

  At first, I thought that I have a bug in my script but then I noticed that the viperformance.pl script returns the same values.

  I run the script viperformace.pl like this:

  ./viperformance.pl--serveur xxx.xx.xx.x:xxx - username xxxxxx - password "xxxxxxxxxx" - host xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxxx.xx - countertype cpu - 1 samples

  Performance data: xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxxx.xx

  Counter: CPU utilization (average)

  Instance:

  Description: During the interval collected percentage CPU usage

  Units: %

  Example of information: 20, 2009-05 - 22 T 08: 27:20Z

  Value: 538

  Counter: Use of the processor in MHz (average)

  Instance:

  Description: CPU in MHz on the meantime collected. For guests that may be represented on a basis by the VM stacked graph

  Units: MHz

  Example of information: 20, 2009-05 - 22 T 08: 27:20Z

  Value: 1004

  Can someone explain what is the value of average 538? What I have to deal with the result of getting a real percentage?

  Thank you very much

  Jan

  Hi Jan,

  The value of the cpu usage meter can be between 0 and 10000. This value is 1/100th of one to one hundred, so 1 = 0.01%.

  So, in your case the CPU usage is actually 5,38-10.04% respectively.

  Please refer to the documentation counter for more details.

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/VC-SDK/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/CPU.html

  I hope this helps.

• Cannot start a virtual machine with more than 1 CPU socket added

  I've set up a few boxes of ESXi 5.5 with the free license in recent weeks, they have all been without problems so far. All 4 servers have the same exact hardware

  Environment:

  Dell Poweredge T620

  E5-2630 2 Intel CPU

  40 GB OF DDR3 ECC RAM

  ESXi is installed on 2 x 146 GB 15 K SAS drives RAID-1

  Data for virtual machines store are 8 x 600 GB 10 K SAS RAID-10 disc

  Guest operating system is Server2012r2 on all virtual machines

  Installed it on ESXi 3 previous were conducted with custom ESXi 5.5 Dell without problem.

  The 4th is where I will have questions. I used the following ESXi installed just in case there is a bug somewhere

  5.5 of VMware ESXi

  ESXi 5.5 customized by Dell

  5.5 U1 of VMware ESXi

  Any version of the ESXi I use I can't have a virtual machine to begin with more than 1 CPU socket added to it. The virtual machine does not start even the VMWare BIOS. I tried the Bios EFI as well with no luck. The error message I get in the events is ' fatal error VMware ESX: vcpu (vcpu-X)-X:VM - entry failed; Valid VMCS (error code 8). The vcpu-X is always another. I have attached the log file is created. If I give the VM 1 single processor TI starts very well. I'm at a loss as to what could be the issue.

  Problem is solved. I caught another server with identical hardware, verified it worked properly, then started to swap parts between them. Turned out to be CPU1. Once this has been replaced from a working server I have not had any problems. Warranty has been appealed.

  Thanks for all the help!

• Monitoring VM - how to restart the virtual machine

  Hi all

  Hit a problem in our environment that can not be solved, but wanted to tender hand to people and see if they have found a way to replace.

  Currently have followed vm enabled in our cluster. Thing is watching us to restart the virtual machine VMware tools demonstrated to a status of "not running" - now, the key is to most of the definitions, the system is available in this case, can be crazy, RDP'ed etc, but we here again them restarted as he finally solves the issue we see (for example unable to connect via citrix for the machines in question)

  Duncan in the post below highlights in order to avoid false positives any i/o to storage/network activity will be verified after that heatbeats failed to "double check" there is a problem with the virtual machine

  Favorite VM monitoring (aka VM HA) - yellow bricks

  What I asked is it possible to replace verification of network storage/IO activity and then restart the virtual machine VMware tools on them stops as soon as?

  Many tx for all thoughts

  «.. . is there a way to replace check network activity of storage/IO and then restart the virtual machine of VMware tools on them stops as soon as...? »

  You can always use a supervision-process inside the virtual machine for this tool (perhaps more followed VM). It acts independently and allows much finer control, i.e. it can try first (re) start vm-tools before restarting. Same BSOD /-kernel panic can be dealt with by VM itself. It can actually be even more robust, not dependent on VMware infrastructure.

• Virtual machine consuming more memory Balloning and swap

  Hello

  I use the script healthcheck powershell for esxi cluster. The report of script detects the virtual machine runs on the server consuming more swap ESXi (myesxservername) and MemoryBallonKB.The SQL server is installed on this server with 4 GB of RAM and runs on VAPP resource pool. Resources of VAPP, booking resources pool memory is configured 326MB and limit is unlimited. Properties of Machine resources virtual Allocation of memory is limited to 2 GB.

  I checked using the server ESXi balloning in Vcenter on the use and real-time is Ko 1111652 and for other servers clustered ESXi is 0 (Zero). As the script detects the memory usage Balloning increases because of this virtual machine. The ESXi server where virtual memory is hosted are not overcommitted memory.

  I have quite a face never this problem. Help, please.

  You must remove the limit of memory on the properties of the VM and make it unlimited.

  If you set the virtual computer with the allocation of RAM of 4 GB and 2 GB limit it will mean the VM will only use 2 GB of physical RAM (limit) and the rest will be exchanged in the file vswap. In this case, if the virtual machine to use 100% of allocated ram it will swap 2 GB on the disk.

  Just delete the memory limit on the virtual machine and let the resource pool contained controll VMs

  a virtual machine cannot use more RAM that allocated, so the limit should never be used in production.

  Please allow for correct/good answers

• Why my svchost.exe process constantly runs at 100% CPU usage?

  Recently, my computer was extremely slow.  I thought that was the cause of a worm or virus but after I used Norton to take care of that my system is still slow right too. When I checked my system process, its display svchost.exe using a massive amount of memory. Therefore, my CPU usage is constantly at 100%.  Is it still the result of a bug? Or do I have to look elsewhere as the source of the problem? Thank you

  It is possible that a recent update of Norton was faulty or caused one conflict with another program on the PC.

  Activity excessive svchost.exe is often linked to one of the following:

  1 resource hog like Norton or McAfee (sad but true)

  2 be linked in Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update

  3. after having been updated for Windows Search 4.0 and its endless reindexing

  4. the presence of malware

  Unless you have uninstalled Norton AND used their removal tool, I doubt you really deleted ALL occurrences of Norton!

  FWIW, I helped a neighbor recently with his performance problem. The culprit in his case was Windws Search 4.0. And since there is no entry in the Control Panel Add / Remove programs to KB940157, I needed to follow the instructions offered by Nepatsfan here:

  http://help.WUGNET.com/Windows/uninstall-Windows-search-Windows-XP-KB940157-ftopict624142.html

• What is the "system idle process" and why it seems to freeze my Windows XP and show the 99% CPU usage?

  This problem sometimes occurs when my computer starts. Today, it happened and actually picked up my internet connection, which also won the update of Flash Player and Internet Explorer open. Also, I couldn't get the Start Menu to open. What is happening to the CPU is too busy doing something else? Is there a way to refresh the process or the CPU?

  Hi Hope_H,

  1. did you of recent changes on the computer?

  2 when was the last time it was working fine?

  3. do you have security software installed on the computer?

  4. you receive an error message?

  Checking service or program uses high processor usage by using Task Manager.

  To view the CPU usage, press CTRL + ALT + DELETE, click Task Manager, and then click the performance tab.

  Overview of the Task Manager

  http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/taskman_whats_there_w.mspx?mfr=true

  It is possible that some third-party programs installed on the computer is causing the problem.

  I suggest that you put the computer in a clean boot state and check if it helps.

  To help resolve the error and other messages, you can start Windows XP by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This type of boot is known as a "clean boot". A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  See the link below to learn more about how to clean boot.

  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  Reset the computer to start as usual

  When you are finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

  (a) click Start, type msconfig in the search box and press ENTER.

  (b) If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password or click on continue.

  (c) under the general tab, click the Normal startup option, and then click OK.

  (d) when you are prompted to restart the computer, click on restart.

• Firefox will not display on the screen even though with Process Explorer, I see active Firefox.exe but no CPU usage

  I use Firefox as default browser v10.0.2 on Dell XPS8300 Intel Core i5 and Windows 7 Ultimate and Compaq Presario CQ57 IO IO Intel Core i3 and Windows 7 Home. More frequently on the (approximately 90% of attempts) that Dell (50% of attempts) Firefox will not display on the screen when I click the icon. Cannot display other programs when it happens. I expressly say display because I believe that Firefox has started. To work around the problem, I installed Process Explorer on both machines and launch this program first, then click on the Firefox icon. When the problem occurs I see process Firefox.exe in the list of processes; some CPU consumed but, then, no CPU activity. If I click on the Firefox icon, yet another process opens in the list of processes, but with the same answer - some consumed CPU and then no CPU activity. If I have 2 processes running and kill the process from the 1st, the 2nd poster and then everything is normal. If I do not open it treat a 2nd, but kill the 1st process then click the Firefox Firefox is displayed and all then is normal. This problem has occurred since the original on the two new machines installation. I have updated the video drivers on both computers.

  OK, let's see if we can solve this problem and make it work for you!

  First of all, if you start Firefox in safe mode (restart your computer first, then when you open Firefox, hold down the SHIFT key) it starts more reliable? This is usually caused by a defective module. If this does not help, then restart Firefox, go to the Firefox, then add-ons button and disable your extensions one by one until you find the troublemaker.

  Also, try to update to Firefox 11, it has several bug fixes that might make life easier here.

  Just as a few troubleshooting steps base to ensure that we have all the bases covered,
  Run all Windows updates, install all required service packs, etc.

  Update all of your plugins (Flash, Java, etc.): http://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/.

  Download and install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, run a full scan. http://www.malwarebytes.org/. This check allows that there is no virus on your computer, causing problems. You can uninstall this program after having cleaned the infections.

• Alert - the virtual machine CPU usage

  A virtual computer that is running Windows 2000 reports almost every day an alert on "use of the processor of the virtual machine.

  According to my knowledge, add a CPU to a Windows 2000 Server is not easy as with recent versions of Windows, is correct?

  The 5.0 ESXi host is not CPU ovrloaded, so I don't think that adding a CPU reservation can change anything...

  So, what is the best way to solve the problem with the minimum impact on the VM guwest?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Hello

  because they describe your problem, read the following article:

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1077

  and if you still want to add a vCPU, read this MS KB article:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/234558

  Concerning

• Customer (ESXi host memory, CPU usage & network) report - VFoglight

  Customer report (memory host ESXi, CPU usage & network) - a single report, we would like to see the top host memory, CPU usage & network (in vertical graphic mode) & wise high use of cluster for monthly wise.

  Create a custom report for our requirement.

  * Click on the general TAB on the right pane - action-> click on create dashboard.

  * Select use all data-> next-> name of the dashboard-> next-> select the type of column-> finish.

  * Click on the data TAB, expand VMware-ESX host > & slipped, objects-> to select create Table

  * Select Show all on the shortcut menu select Properties.

  Select ESX, ESX version build:

  Expand CPU-CPU host-> consumer > select high CPU.

  Expand the memory-> memory host--> Select MemoryProcesses top of the page.

  Expand Stoarge-> storage-> process host select high IO-> next-> next-> next-> select the ESX host to add to this table of edge/report from the list of filters under-> click Finish.

  If this point of view to the table, I've found metric to the graph view.

  But when we ran the report, values showed n/a, unfortunately. For the cluster option, I can't use superior even to the table view.

  Some can help me pull vFoglight report.

  Concerning

  Virginia Reynaud

  One way to do this easier would be to create an array with the elements you want on it, as the name of the virtual machine, the use of the processor etc... and then you can filter/sort by CPU utilization, memory usage etc. and only have the Top 10 or anything else you like.

• The CPU usage

  Hello.

  I have two boot server with 3.5 update 5, the first to have all virtual machines powered, the second did not start the virtual machine, but when I check the processor, the memory usage, I see some extrange. The second server uses 12% of the processor, the same as the first server (but with no virtual machine under tension).

  How can I check which process is using CPU in the second server.

  Thank you...

  Hello

  Maybe your virtual machines to sleep... That is why the CPU usage is so low and substantially the same on both servers. But as you can see, consumption of memory is different. This is because even if a virtual machine does nothing, it does not free its memory in contrast to CPU resources.

  Take a look at each VM CPU consumption to confirm the normal behavior of your host.

  Concerning

  Franck