[hobbit] hobbit and vmware

[Andreas Kunberger]

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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