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99% VM Cpu load on various applications when others run perfectly normal posted: Apr 25, 2009 9:07 AM

Click to view RSerdoz's profile Novice 4 posts since
Apr 25, 2009

Hello,

Hopefully someone can help. I have a VM View Demo successfully deployed with 30VM instances. The customer is a K-12 School District, and the applications in question are called Kid Pix 4 and Type and Learn 3. I have limited the cpu usage down to as little as 500mhz per VM and the two faulty applications run normally, obviously the others suffer. If I change the limit to 2.4ghz+ those two application still max out the CPU. All other Office, and school applications run just fine. I have tested with the client, the portal, with and without VM Tools.

Any thoughts??

Click to view lbourque's profile Expert 538 posts since
Oct 26, 2005

Hrmm.. Some thoughts off the top of my head:

1. Are all the VMs single vCPU? Have you tried one with two vCPUs to see how things behave?

It may be that those applications have specific issues with being virtualized. IIRC, they are graphics and CPU heavy in genera, are they not? This isn't a View issue as much as it's a VM issue. What version of ESX are you using? Are you using linked clones or provisioned VMs?

Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,351 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
This is a common issue, the only thing I can suggest is to investigate a Application Management program like AppSense Application Manangement (it is part of the AppSense Suite)

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Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,351 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
Adding a second CPU would not help you here, I very much doubt that the errant applications are SMP aware. Plus you would be adding alot of un-needed overhead into your environment.

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