Hi,

We have three ESX 3.5U2 servers in our cluster. Two of them have about 10-15 hostd processes, consuming, together, 90%+ of the console CPU at all times. This makes any VM operation painfully slow (powering on VMs, reconfiguring etc). Here is an extract of the hostd.log:

--2009-06-29 10:52:21.425 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/7022384b-332c5a3d/archived vms/wksTest1/wksTest1.vmx' 18987952 info-- State Transition (VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING -> VM_STATE_ON)
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.439 'TaskManager' 18987952 info-- Task Completed : haTask-pool7-vim.ResourcePool.updateChildResourceConfiguration-4097
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.443 'TaskManager' 104192944 info-- Task Created : haTask-pool1-vim.ResourcePool.updateChildResourceConfiguration-4098
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.487 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/47a2df2f-637f3204-c8f1-0016355a7dee/svr1/svr1.vmx' 104192944 info-- State Transition (VM_STATE_ON -> VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING)
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.651 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/47a2df2f-637f3204-c8f1-0016355a7dee/svr1/svr1.vmx' 104192944 info-- State Transition (VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING -> VM_STATE_ON)
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.685 'TaskManager' 104192944 info-- Task Completed : haTask-pool1-vim.ResourcePool.updateChildResourceConfiguration-4098
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.699 'TaskManager' 19254192 info-- Task Created : haTask-pool3-vim.ResourcePool.updateChildResourceConfiguration-4099
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.699 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/47a2df2f-637f3204-c8f1-0016355a7dee/svr8/svr8.vmx' 19254192 info-- State Transition (VM_STATE_ON -> VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING)
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.925 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/47a2df2f-637f3204-c8f1-0016355a7dee/svr8/svr8.vmx' 19254192 info-- State Transition (VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING -> VM_STATE_ON)
--2009-06-29 10:52:21.944 'TaskManager' 19254192 info-- Task Completed : haTask-pool3-vim.ResourcePool.updateChildResourceConfiguration-4099

This is performed constantly, multiple times per second.

I've tried a service mgmt-vmware restart, but they respawn like the devil, within seconds...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ben.