On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:08:35AM -0500, Francisco Carmona Leon wrote:
I have a ESX server with nine virtual machines running, some are in
production, some for development.
Those machines are Windows & Linux.
Vmware has a tools called Virtual Center, where you can see the trace of
the use of memory, processors, network packets in/out.
I put in the virtual machines the client and I saw a different values in
the charts.
Talking about memory the Virtual Center says 620M granted and 138M
active and hobbit says:
Memory Used Total Pctg
green Physical: 477M 619M 77%
green Virtual: 37M 2047M 1%
green Page: 598M 1361M 43%
I don't think you can really compare those numbers from the ESX control
center and the virtual OS counters. Your virtual guest OS sees just that -
a virtual machine, which need not in any way reflect what is actually
used at the physical level of the host OS.
Now CPU Virtual Center says use 7% guarantee 13% and hobbit says up: 2
days, 0 users, 36 procs, load=5%
I don't think Hobbit says "load=5%" - if it does, then it's from a
Windows client. But again, I don't think you can directly compare those
two numbers.
BTW, I'm completely ignorant about ESX server. What does the "use" and
"guarantee" numbers mean?
Regards,
Henrik