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feroX2
Contributor
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ESXi 5.1 Using only one core

Hellow

sorry for my bad english...

I have ESXi 5.1 installed with free licence on 1 physical procesor(unlimited cores)

my procesor has 4cores but whole vmWare using only ONE core for virtualizing (propably).

it says capacity is 4x2,4 Ghz but summary of whole usage never go more as 2.7Ghz

I run couple of VM with diferent number of virtual vCPU.

any suggestions? please?

my sumarry config is:

Manufacturer:Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Model:EP45-DS4
Processors:4 CPU x 2,4 GHz
Processor Type:Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Hyperthreading:Inactive
Total Memory:8,00 GB
Number of NICs:3
State:Connected
Virtual Machines:18
vMotion Enabled:No
Active Tasks
Resources
CPU Utilization:
25%
Memory Utilization:
57%

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msripada
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

License shows 1 physical CPU but the CPUs are used accordingly whatever the cores are available.

Thanks,

MS

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Finikiez
Champion
Champion

CPU usage on this page is a summation of CPU used in MHz by all running VMs

It doesn't correlate to which core is used.

You can check with perfcharts and esxtop how cores are utilized.

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