Hi Guys,
Probably a simple question here, but I'm trying to troubleshoot noticeably sluggish performance of ESXi guest machines.
Spec of the host machine is as follows (Its quite old but should be able to handle simple stuff):
Version 7.0 Update 2
4 CPUs x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
31.97 GB Memory
Asus P8P67 Motherboard
2x 1Tb Sandisk SSD drives, non RAID
So I have two datastore configured, and each one has a single copy of vanilla Windows 10 installed on it. Even with only 1 virtual machine powered on, the performance is noticeably sluggish - not terribly so, but it takes a good few seconds just to load up things like network adapter property pages etc that are normally almost instant. If you start up the other VM on the other datastore, the problem gets worse.
What I've noticed is that the guest OS CPU Shows around 5-10% CPU usage at idle. But the VMWare host often reports the VM as using upwards of 6Ghz of CPU. It's currently sat idle, no Remote Desktop sessions, no console sessions from ESXi, no programs running on it, and being reported as using 6.4Ghz by the web admin.
Are there any checks and balances I can do to figure out why this is happening, and whats causing the sluggish performance of the guests?
Thanks!
