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hobbit and vmware

list Andreas Kunberger
Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:33:42 +0200
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On Tuesday, September 19 2006 18:08 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 thinks from the OS view memeory is used if its allocated for some proc, 
Vmware needs to allocate it only if something is writen to it. Hence the 
difference.
Now CPU Virtual Center says use 7% guarantee 13% and hobbit says  up: 2
days, 0 users, 36 procs, load=5%
May be th 2% are the overhead vmware produces.

How can I get a precision value to have a real report of the resource
use of this virtual machine?
mfg
Andreas Kunberger

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