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